title: Analyzing practice costs utilizing Relative Value Units (RVUs).
abstract: "As Medicare pays based upon Relative Value Units and many managed care plans are transitioning their payment systems to an RVU-based system, it should be a long-term goal of the practice to eventually have the practice cost per RVU be at or below the Medicare conversion factor."
authors.affiliation: Comprehensive Cardiovascular Specialists, Independence, Missouri 64050, USA.
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: White
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005245:Fee Schedules; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics*; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000191:economics*; D015895:Relative Value Scales; D014481:United States