Kentros Charles, Barbato Charles
Stony Brook Medicine University Physician, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
Healthc Financ Manage. 2013 Aug;67(8):98-105.
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.
相对价值单位（RVUs）由医疗保险和医疗补助服务中心（CMS）制定，用于为每个由现行程序术语代码分类的医师服务确定一个价值。在一段时间内，相对价值单位提供了一个衡量医师生产力的有效工具，直到医疗保险和医疗补助服务中心决定每年调整相对价值单位的权重，从而削弱了该工具的比较有效性。纽约州斯托尼布鲁克的临床实践管理计划为斯托尼布鲁克大学医学医师制定的一个新模型，提供了一种逐年使相对价值单位标准化的方法，从而使相对价值单位再次可用于评估医师生产力。
