UChicago Faculty Physician
Michael Czapka, MD
Michael Czapka, MD
UChicago Faculty Physician
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Specialties
- Infectious Diseases
Locations
- Chicago - Hyde Park
- Chicago - River East
- About
- Specialties & Areas of Expertise
- Locations & Patient Information
- Education & Research
- Accepted Insurance
- External Professional Relationships
Michael Czapka, MD, is an infectious disease doctor who specializes in treating and preventing infections in immunocompromised adults. Dr. Czapka provides care for people before and after organ transplants, chemotherapy, stem cell transplants and CAR T-cell therapy, with particular expertise managing fungal and viral infections.
Along with his dedication to his patients, Dr. Czapka is actively involved in clinical trials for new drugs and vaccines targeted to difficult-to-treat infections, including fungi, viruses and mycobacteria. He also studies infections in CAR T-cell recipients and leads quality improvement initiatives to improve the care that patients receive. His work has been published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine and Transplant Infectious Disease and has been presented at medical conferences such as IDWeek. Additionally, Dr. Czapka serves on the institutional ethics review board for clinical research.
Along with his dedication to his patients, Dr. Czapka is actively involved in clinical trials for new drugs and vaccines targeted to difficult-to-treat infections, including fungi, viruses and mycobacteria. He also studies infections in CAR T-cell recipients and leads quality improvement initiatives to improve the care that patients receive. His work has been published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine and Transplant Infectious Disease and has been presented at medical conferences such as IDWeek. Additionally, Dr. Czapka serves on the institutional ethics review board for clinical research.
Specialties
Areas of Expertise
- Clinical Trials
- Immunocompromised Patients
UChicago Medicine Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine - Hyde Park5758 S. Maryland Ave., Chicago IL 606371-888-824-0200
Board Certifications
- Infectious Disease
- Internal Medicine
Languages Spoken
- English
Medical Education
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Residency
- Rush University Medical Center
Fellowship
- University of Chicago Hospital
Memberships & Medical Societies
- Infectious Diseases Society of America
- American Society of Transplantation
- American Society of Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
News & Research
Insurance
- Aetna Better Health *see insurance page
- Aetna HMO (specialists only)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO
- BCBS Blue Precision HMO (specialists only)
- BCBS HMO (HMOI) (specialists only)
- BCBS Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO
- BCBS PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna POS
- Cigna PPO
- CountyCare *see insurance page
- Humana Medicare Advantage Choice PPO
- Humana Medicare Advantage Gold Choice PFFS
- Humana Medicare Advantage Gold Plus HMO
- Medicare
- Multiplan PPO
- PHCS PPO
- United Choice Plus POS/PPO
- United Choice HMO (specialists only)
- United Options (PPO)
- United Select (HMO & EPO) (specialists only)
- United W500 Emergent Wrap
- University of Chicago Health Plan (UCHP)
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UChicago Medicine is committed to fostering a corporate culture of ethical behavior and integrity in all matters related to compliance with the laws and regulations that govern the delivery of healthcare. This aspiration is central to supporting patient care, research, and teaching at UChicago Medicine.
Some of our physicians and health professionals collaborate with external pharmaceutical, medical device, or other medical related entities to develop new treatments and products to improve clinical outcomes for patients. In some instances, the physician has ownership interests in the external entity and/or is compensated for advising or speaking about the entity’s products or treatments. These payments may include compensation for consulting and speaking engagements, equity, and/or royalties for products invented by our physicians. To assure objectivity and integrity in patient care, UChicago Medicine requires all physicians and health professionals to report their relationships and financial interests with external entities on an annual basis. This information is used to review relationships and transactions that might give rise to potential financial conflicts of interest, and when considered to be significant a management plan to mitigate any biases is created.
If you are a patient at UChicago Medicine and would like more information about your physician’s external relationships, please talk with your physician. You may also visit the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/ . CMS Open Payments is a national disclosure program that promotes a more transparent and accountable health care system. It houses a publicly accessible database of payments that reporting entities, including drug and medical device companies, make to covered recipients like physicians and hospitals.
Information in the CMS Open Payments database could potentially contain inaccurately reported and out of date payment information. All information is open to personal interpretation, if there are questions about the data, patients and their advocates should speak directly to their health care provider for a better understanding.
Some of our physicians and health professionals collaborate with external pharmaceutical, medical device, or other medical related entities to develop new treatments and products to improve clinical outcomes for patients. In some instances, the physician has ownership interests in the external entity and/or is compensated for advising or speaking about the entity’s products or treatments. These payments may include compensation for consulting and speaking engagements, equity, and/or royalties for products invented by our physicians. To assure objectivity and integrity in patient care, UChicago Medicine requires all physicians and health professionals to report their relationships and financial interests with external entities on an annual basis. This information is used to review relationships and transactions that might give rise to potential financial conflicts of interest, and when considered to be significant a management plan to mitigate any biases is created.
If you are a patient at UChicago Medicine and would like more information about your physician’s external relationships, please talk with your physician. You may also visit the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/ . CMS Open Payments is a national disclosure program that promotes a more transparent and accountable health care system. It houses a publicly accessible database of payments that reporting entities, including drug and medical device companies, make to covered recipients like physicians and hospitals.
Information in the CMS Open Payments database could potentially contain inaccurately reported and out of date payment information. All information is open to personal interpretation, if there are questions about the data, patients and their advocates should speak directly to their health care provider for a better understanding.