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Richard Duszak, Jr., M.D., FACR, chair of the ACR's Economics Committee on Coding & Nomenclature and the ACR's CPT Advisor since 2004, has been appointed to the American Medical Association's (AMA) CPT Editorial Panel, the organization responsible for the maintenance of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) national code set.

The CPT Editorial Panel, appointed by the AMA's board of trustees, is comprised of 17 members, including: 11 physicians nominated by the national medical specialty societies; one physician each nominated from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, the America's Health Insurance Plans, the American Hospital Association, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; one Performance Measures representative (formerly a managed care seat), and two members of the CPT Health Care Professionals Advisory Committee (co-chair and one member at large). With the exception of one year, radiology has always been represented on this Panel which signifies the AMA's Board of Trustees recognition that radiology coding and technology encompasses a significant amount of issues discussed by the Panel.

Duszak is actively involved with numerous coding publications, lectures, and courses. He is editor-in-chief of the AMA/ACR Clinical Examples in Radiology, associate editor of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR), a reviewer of the ACR Radiology Coding Source™, and previously served on the Editorial Boards of both Radiology and the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. He is the ACR liaison to the Radiology Coding Certification Board, the organization responsible for the establishment and maintenance of the only radiology-specific coding certification examination. Duszak is a radiology-certified coder.

Duszak currently serves as a full-time diagnostic and interventional radiologist at Mid-South Imaging and Therapeutics in Memphis, Tenn.