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 ...

And under RVU-based models, even routine time off becomes risky. Vacation, continuing medical education, or parental leave ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As federal and commercial payers expand bundled and risk-based payment models, orthopedic practices are adapting to new expectations around cost, quality and care coordination. Orthopedics has long ...

Reimbursement for physician services accounts for over 20 percent of US health care expenditures, totaling approximately $700 billion per year. 1 Over 70 percent remains fee-for-service. 2 The ...

Primary care providers in the United States are in short supply leading to reduced access to preventive and longitudinal care. A recent survey shows that wait times at primary care have increased ...

How will my surgeon get paid? That’s a question few people ask as they think about having surgery. But it is worth asking, and the answer should factor into decision-making. For most surgeons, the ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as the new secretary of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s de facto healthcare czar. He will have influence over numerous highly visible agencies, including the Centers ...