Richard Garfinkel in Chevy Chase, Maryland

Medical School: New York University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1983
The Primary Medical Specialty for Richard Garfinkel is listed as: Ophthalmology
Approximate Years of Experience: 41
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 2961595541
NPI #: 1831163997
NPI Created On: 02/15/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 07/27/2020
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207W00000X
License Number:
D0037044
Listed Gender: Male

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Forms of insurance accepted by include, but are not limited to:

• CareFirst BlueChoice, Inc.
• Group Hospitalization and Medical Services Inc.
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Injection of drug into eye
2. Eye and medical examination for diagnosis and treatment, established patient
3. Eye and medical examination for diagnosis and treatment, established patient, 1 or more visits
4. Diagnostic imaging of retina
5. Extended examination of eye with drawing of retina
6. Extended examination of eye with drawing of optic nerve and surrounding area (macula)
7. Imaging of blood vessels in back of eye using fluorescein dye
8. Photography of the retina
9. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
10. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
13. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
14. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
15. Injection, aflibercept, 1 mg
16. Injection, brolucizumab-dbll, 1 mg
17. Injection, ranibizumab, 0.1 mg
18. Injection, dexamethasone, intravitreal implant, 0.1 mg
19. Compounded drug, not otherwise classified
20. Injection, bevacizumab, 10 mg

They took part in Medicare's Electronic Health Record Incentive Program which was designed to help move people over to electronic records and improve the systems that were already in place.
They took part in the Medicare Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS).