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 ...

To calculate physicians’ fees under Medicare—which in turn influence the physician fee schedules of other public and private payers—one of the essential decisions the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

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 ...

Medicare's resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) was implemented 1 January 1992 for physician payment using a conversion factor of $31 for each relative value unit (RVU). We calculated a ...

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 ...

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 ...