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 ...

The conversion factor per relative value unit under the 2022 fee schedule will be reduced to $33.59, down from $34.89 in 2021. Physicians are staring at a nearly 9% cut in Medicare reimbursements in ...

Medicare reimburses clinicians based on the resource intensity of a service, measured as relative value units (RVUs). The RVUs assigned to a service are multiplied by a dollar amount per RVU (the ...

You must bill the higher rate to receive the increased payment. Failing to update your fee schedule effectively leaves revenue on the table. For 2026, relative value units (RVUs) for acupuncture ...

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 ...

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 ...

"The trend in decreased Medicare reimbursement is not sustainable," chief medical officer says. A 3.4% conversion factor reduction in Medicare's 2024 Physician Fee Schedule final rule will make a bad ...