Relative Value Scales

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Applying the resource-based relative value scale to the Emory angioplasty versus surgery trial. 
  • CPT to RVU conversion improves model performance in the prediction of surgical case length. 
  • Disparities between Operative Time and Relative Value Units for Plastic Surgery Procedures. 
  • Economics, health-related quality of life, and cost-effectiveness methods for the TACTICS (Treat Angina With Aggrastat [tirofiban]] and Determine Cost of Therapy with Invasive or Conservative Strategy)-TIMI 18 trial. 
  • Equivalence of two healthcare costing methods: bottom-up and top-down. 
  • Grading a physician's value--the misapplication of performance measurement. 
  • Health Care Financing Administration release of final physician payment reform regulation. 
  • Medicare physician payment reform: will 2014 be the fix for SGR? 
  • Physician payment for 2007: a description of the process by which major changes in valuation of cardiothoracic surgical procedures occurred. 
  • Reading RVUs: How can we meet the informational needs of cardiologists? 
  • The Research RVU (rRVU): In Search of a Methodology to Incentivize and Compensate Clinicians for Participation in Clinical Research Activities. 
  • Time parameters for glaucoma procedures. 
  • Trends in reimbursement for primary and revision total elbow arthroplasty. 
  • Work time estimates for ophthalmic diagnoses and procedures. Results from the Eye Care Workforce Study.