Rebuilding the Relative Value Unit-Based Physician Payment System

JAMA. 2024 Aug 6;332(5):369-370. doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.8478.
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Plain language summary

This Viewpoint explores the use of relative value units assigned by the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale in US physician payment systems and the need to rebuild this scale to reflect changes in modern clinical practice.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Medicare* / economics
  • Physicians* / economics
  • Reimbursement Mechanisms* / economics
  • Relative Value Scales*
  • United States