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 ...

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 ...

For many physicians, employment contracts include a base salary plus a production bonus based on relative value units (RVUs). Employers can reward physicians for exceeding RVU targets — but also ...

Six years ago, a committee of six professors and three division chiefs at the University of Florida sat down to discuss how doctors employed by the university's academic medical center should be paid.

The prices of physicians’ services for 38 million beneficiaries in the traditional Medicare program are set by the federal government. The process begins with a set of relative value units (RVUs) ...

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 ...

Oncologists in academic cancer centers usually generate professional fees that are insufficient to cover salaries and other expenses, despite significant clinical activity; therefore, supplemental ...

A recent TIME magazine article highlighted a study which declared that Medicare pays nearly $19,000 less to female doctors. Since the government has stressed equal pay, this sounds alarming. But is it ...