RVU in Medical Billing: How Relative Value Units Set Payment

Diagram: work, practice expense and malpractice RVUs times a local cost index and conversion factor equal Medicare payment

If you bill Medicare, or any payer that bases its fees on Medicare, you work with RVUs every day, even if you never look at them. A relative value unit (RVU) is a number that measures how much physician work, practice cost and liability risk a medical service involves. Multiply it by a dollar conversion […]

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