title: Using normalized RVU reporting to evaluate physician productivity.
abstract: Relative value units (RVUs) were developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish a value for each physician service categorized by a current procedural terminology code. For some time, RVUs provided an effective tool for measuring physician productivity, until CMS decided to adjust RVU weightings annually, undermining the tool's comparative effectiveness. A new model developed by the clinical practice management plan serving Stony Brook Medicine University Physicians in Stony Brook, N.Y., provides a means to normalize RVUs from year to year, thereby making RVUs again useful for assessing physician productivity.
authors: Stony Brook Medicine University Physician, Stony Brook, NY, USA. charles.kontros@stonybrookmedicine.edu
authors: Charles
authors: C
authors: Kentros
authors: Charles
authors: C
authors: Barbato
mesh_terms: D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D030881:Disclosure; D058007:Physicians, Primary Care / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms / Q000639:trends; D015895:Relative Value Scales; D014481:United States