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Elisabeth Volpert1, Korinne Van Keuren, Brooke Trainum
1Elisabeth Volpert is a board-certified family nurse practitioner and an assistant professor at the University of Louisville School of Nursing. She is also an advisor for the American Nurses Association (ANA) and a part of its Resource-Based Relative-Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) Health Care Professionals Advisory Committee as well as the RUC's Practice Expense Subcommittee. Korinne Van Keuren is a certified nurse practitioner and the vice president for Clinical Service Line Management and Quality at Healthcare Outcomes Performance Co. Brooke Trainum is the director of ANA's Department of Policy and Government Affairs.
Abstract:
Relative value units (RVUs) are a measurement of practice efficiency and patient complexity. RVUs are reviewed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services through the Resource-Based Relative-Value Scale Update Committee, which determines recommendations regarding the Current Procedural Terminology code valuations for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. This article discusses the importance of nurses' participation in the accurate valuation of their work and in the process of developing and revising RVUs.
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