Philip Clay Buescher, MD| Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonology | MedStar Health
About me
Philip Clay Buescher, MD, is Medical and Surgical Director of the intensive care units at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital and MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital. He was named a Baltimore magazine Top Doctor in 2012.
Clinical areas of focus
- Asthma
- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchoscopy
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Interstitial Lung Disease
- Interventional Bronchoscopy
- Lung Cancer Screening
- Lung Mass
- Mycobacterial Infection
- Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Pulmonary Sarcoid
- Sleep Disorders
- Thoracentesis
- Thoracoscopy
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Acute Bronchitis
- Airway Disorders
- Airway Obstruction
- Airway Scarring
- Allergic Aspergillosis
- Allergic Pneumonitis
- Allergic Wheezing
- Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
- Asbestos Lung
- Aspiration Pneumonitis
- Asthma
- Asthmatic Bronchitis
- Atelectasis
- Autoimmune Pleuritis
- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchitis
- Bronchospasm
- Chronic Bronchitis
- Chronic Cough
- Chronic Lung Disease
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Chronic Respiratory Failure
- Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia
- Diaphragmatic Disorders
- Drug Induced Pulmonary Disease
- Dyspnea On Exertion
- Emphysema
- Empyema
- Exercise Intolerance
- Hemoptysis
- Hepatic Hydrothorax
- Hypercarbia
- Hypoventilation Syndrome
- Hypoxia
- Interstitial Lung Disease
- Laryngotracheitis
- Lung Abscess
- Lung Disease
- Lung Infiltrate
- Lung Mass
- Maternal Respiratory Disease
- Mycobacterial Infection
- Occupational Lung Injury
- Pertussis
- Pleural Diseases
- Pleural Effusion
- Pleural Thickening
- Pleural Tuberculosis
- Pleurisy
- Pleuritic Pain
- Pneumoconiosis
- Pneumonia
- Pneumonitis
- Post Infectious Cough
- Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
- Pulmonary Bullae
- Pulmonary Complications Of Neurological Diseases
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Pulmonary Granuloma
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Pulmonary Infections
- Pulmonary Nodule
- Pulmonary Sarcoid
- Radiation Pneumonitis
- Reactive Airway Disease
- Recurrent Lung Infections
- Restrictive Lung Disease
- Rheumatoid Lung
- Shortness Of Breath (SOB)
- Silicosis
- Sleep Disorders
- Smoker Cough
- Stridor
- Tobacco-Related Diseases
- Tracheal Mass
- Tracheal Stenosis
- Tracheobronchitis
- Tuberculosis
- Wheezing
Procedures I perform
- Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure
- Bronchoscopy
- Continuous Positive Airway Pressure
- Home Sleep Study
- Interventional Bronchoscopy
- Lung Cancer Screening
- Mechanical Ventilation
- Pulmonary And Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Pulmonary Clearance For Surgery
- Pulmonary Function Tests (PFT)
- Pulmonary Stent Placement
- Pulmonary Therapy
- Spirometry
- Thoracentesis
- Thoracoscopy
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- Blue Choice Advantage & Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans/ UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans HMO, POS, PPO
- United Healthcare Options (PPO) (includes Empire PPO, GEHA, Compass Rose)
- Aetna Better Health of Maryland
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv/Special Needs Plans
- Kaiser PermanenteSelect-Added Choice
- Kaiser MD Medicaid MCO
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
- Medicare Fee for Service
- Kaiser Permanente Signature-Added Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- UHC Community Plan of MD
- CFBCBS EPO
- CFBCBS Federal Employee Program (Std/Basic PPO/Blue Focus)
- Kaiser Virginia Premier
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS) (PPO)
- Cigna HealthSpring Medicare Advantage
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- Aetna Innovations: HMO & EPO Plus
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Aetna HMO
- Open POS II
- Innovation Health: Open POS Plus
- Choice POS & Choice POS II
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Open EPO Plus
- Opoen HMO Option
- Open HMO
- Innovation Health: POS
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- Innovation Health: Open Network Only Plus
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Innovation Health: POS Plus
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- Innovation Health: PPO
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- Innovation Health: Indemnity
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- BlueChoice Open Access
- CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- HealthyBlue PPO
- CFBSBC Blue Preferred PPO
- Choice Fund PPO
- PPO and PPO Plus
- CIGNA EPO
- POS OA & OA Plus
- Network OA
- CIGNA HMO Open Access (OA)
- United Healthcare Choice
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- Tricare Prime
- MedStar Select (MedStar Associates' Plan)
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Tricare for Life (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
- CFBCBS BlueChoice HMO
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- First Health PPO
- FIRST HEALTH
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- United Student Resources
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund) Innovation Health: Network Only Plus
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- CFBCBS Maryland Point of Service Plan (MPOS)
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) & OCI Direct (HMO)
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- CIGNA Indemnity
- CFBCBS Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- CFBCBS (NCA) Indemnity
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine
Fellowship Program: Johns Hopkins Hospital (1987)
Residency Program: Johns Hopkins Hospital (1984)
Internship Program: Johns Hopkins Hospital (1982)
Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine (1981)