Medicare services go through a process to determine their costs, which varies for each part. One part is the relative value unit (RVU). An RVU forms part of the resource-based relative value scale ...

Before implementing additional fee schedule changes to increase primary care reimbursement, policy makers should evaluate the ...

Medicare services undergo a cost-determining process that includes different components. One component is the relative value unit (RVU). An RVU is a part of the basis for the Resource-Based Relative ...

Work relative value units (wRVUs) correlate with operative duration of common surgical procedures. Reimbursement for physicians depending on wRVUs is fair for commonly performed surgeries. Objectives: ...

Healthcare providers can use relative value units to estimate whether payors are appropriately reimbursing procedures and to secure better future payments, according to American Medical News. The ...

Fee-for-service methodologies, especially relative-value units (RVUs), keep creeping back into alternative payment models like capitation. Maybe we should take the hint and adapt RVUs to the new ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In the last decade, the growing disparity between declining professional fee CPT reimbursements and ...

The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule is a big deal. The fee schedule determines what services are covered for what price. When setting the fee schedule, policymakers seek to balance a number of goals ...

Physicians often lack contract negotiation training. Understanding work relative value units, national benchmarks and fair market value can help physicians advocate for themselves using a data-driven ...