What does RVS stand for?

Relative Value Scale

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Samples in periodicals archive:

95 Paperback R728 This 2009 Guide offers physicians an updated overview of the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS), covering its components, operation, and applications.

Medicare RBRVS; the physicians' guide, 2009

The other attempt to improve the lot of the primary care doctor was the introduction of a physician payment scheme by Medicare called RBRVS for Resource-based Relative Value Scale.

The Primary Care Conundrum

In early February, AMDA went before the American Medical Association's Resource-Based Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) meeting in San Diego with suggested adjustments to nursing home CPT codes (99304-99310 and 99318) that would increase Medicare reimbursement for new admissions, subsequent visits, and annual visits by physicians.

Geriatric hopes rest on improved CMS outlays

The issue of practice-expense payments in the Medicare Part B formula known as Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) represents a sea change.

HCFA analysis could cause real harm

Even further down the road, payers who write self-insured business will reimburse managed care contracts through Medicares RBRVS (the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale HCFA uses to reimburse for Medicare patients), Garbrick says.

Rapid managed care growth presents challenges

in early May, said the last comment Stark made during that visit was that he would like to see the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale system extended to the private sector, but at a higher conversion rate in L.

L.A. physicians anxiously await reform proposals; high-priced ...

Under that approach, providers would be required to accept hospital DRG rates or physician relative value scale fees if they are adopted by private carriers.

Labs face new fee cut to fund health insurance plan

Regulating Doctors' Fees: Competition, Benefits, and Controls under Medicare is a timely compilation of articles, commentaries and discussions that examine William Hsiao's proposal for Medicare to use his Resource-based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) as a cornerstone for physician payments.

Regulating Doctors' Fees: Competition, Benefits and Controls Under ...