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 ...

The Relative Value Scale Update Committee — RUC — convened by the American Medical Association meets three times a year to develop recommendations for relative value units adjustments and to address ...

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 ...

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 ...