The American Medical Association owns the intellectual property rights to the system for determining physician fees – a property that generates $72 million annually. Why? In 1965, when Medicare made ...

Objectives: Health funders face the challenge of determining the appropriate level of surgeon fees in fee-forservice schemes. A resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) attempts to identify the ...

Specialists and generalists have sparred for years on the physicians’ committee that helps determine what each specialty is paid, but generalists have lately been winning pay increases at the expense ...

The proposed rule for the 2026 Physician Fee Schedule seeks suggestions to replace the AMA committee that assesses the resources necessary for physicians to provide high-quality services. The leader ...

Objectives. Analyses were performed to reproduce and examine the sensitivity of the cross-specialty linkage algorithm used by Hsiao et al to obtain the currently implemented resource-based relative ...

Reimbursement for physician services accounts for over 20 percent of US health care expenditures, totaling approximately $700 billion per year. 1 Over 70 percent remains fee-for-service. 2 The ...

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 ...

Work relative value units (wRVUs) correlate with operative duration of common surgical procedures. Reimbursement for physicians depending on wRVUs is fair for commonly performed surgeries. Objectives: ...

Dr. Keith Smith, right, an anesthesiologist who started Surgery Center of Oklahoma, looks on as Dr. Don McGinnis, left, and physician's assistant Steve Popielec, right, perform a surgery at the center ...

Discover how relative value funds use strategies like pairs trading to exploit mispricings, aiming to exceed benchmarks.