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 ...

This is where the relative value units (RVU) come in – a critical component of the analysis of physician productivity. How can physicians not only deliver quality care but also optimize their ...

I am an APN employed by a hospital-managed primary care physician's group. The hospital would like to change the way that I am reimbursed to the same formula that they plan to use to reimburse the ...

Physician compensation remained relatively flat in 2015, increasing just 3.1 percent on average, according to AMGA’s “2016 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey,” which is based on data ...

Around 6 in 10 physicians in a Medscape survey said that reimbursing their services based on relative value units (RVUs) generated is unfair. About 70% of them believe RVUs are not a good tool to ...

Proving high productivity may be helpful for small groups considering selling to a hospital. RVUs are a useful gauge of doctors' productivity, but practices also should look at such aspects as each ...

As of July 1, roughly 1,000 physicians at Medical University Hospital in Charleston, S.C., will see their pay based on the number of patients they treat versus the amount of money generated by each ...