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Dr. Richard William Rissmiller MD 
General Practice - Male
MUSC Health East Cooper Medical Pavilion
1600 Midtown Avenue
Mount Pleasant, SC 29464
 (843) 792-9200
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DOCTOR SUMMARY
 Education and Training
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Fellowship completed: 2004
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Medical School completed: 1998
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Residency completed: 2001
 Certifications
ACLS
American Board of Internal Medicine
BLS
NC
NC-200001266
SC
SC-2035449
SC-35449
SC-BR7843762
 Degrees
Medical Doctor - MD
 Spoken Languages
English
 Years of Experience
24 Years
 Insurances Accepted
Absolute Total Care (NEIC)
Absolute Total Care Healthy Connections Prime Dual Medicare/Medicaid Plan 
Aetna (PPO)
AllWell by Absolute Total Care
Ambetter from Absolute Total Care (Marketplace) 
BCBS Blue Essentials (Marketplace)
Blue Choice Blue Option (Exchange Plan)
Blue Choice Medicaid
Blue Choice MyChoice (Available as individual commercial product)
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Choice HealthCare (Group Health Plan)
Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal (FEP)
Blue Cross Blue Shield Planned Administrators
Blue Cross Blue Shield Preferred Blue (PPC)
Blue Cross Blue Shield State Health Plan for South Carolina
Cigna
Clover Health 
Coventry
Employers Health Network/SC Business Coalition on Health
First Choice VIP Care Plus Healthy Connections Prime Dual Medicare/Medicaid Plan
First Choice/Select Health (NEIC)
First Health
Great West Healthcare (Part of Cigna now)
Humana ChoiceCare PPO (Group Health Plan) 
Managed Choice
Medcost
Molina Healthcare 
Molina Healthy Connections Prime Dual Medicare/Medicaid Plan
Open Choice and Exclusive Choice)
Tricare
United HealthCare
WellCare
 Message
Dr. Rissmiller grew up in Pennsylvania and attended Villanova University as an undergraduate. He then moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina and spent ten years at Wake Forest University completing medical school, a residency in internal medicine and a pulmonary and critical care fellowship. He then spent nine years in Charlotte, North Carolina, at Carolinas Medical Center (Main Campus) and provided pulmonary and critical care services for patients, as well as taking an active role in resident and medical student education. Dr. Rissmiller moved to MUSC in February of 2013 and has helped expand the sarcoidosis program, as well as seeing patients with pulmonary hypertension and general inpatient and outpatient pulmonary medicine. He maintains an interest in education. He has been designated a master clinical teacher by the medical school in 2014 and was awarded the Michael E. Assey Teaching Award for the Department of Internal Medicine in 2015.

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