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2009 RVU Calculator (Free, Of Course!)

Jan

20

I forgot to mention last week that I updated the Build Your Own RVU calculator for 2009.  You can find it and the instructions in the PedSource library.

To make a long story short, for those who don’t know it - I really don’t like the fact that do do any proper RVU analysis of your practice, you have to pay for expensive software.  Especially for software owned by organizations who have admitted to ripping off the very people they claim to serve.  So, I designed a free tool that, using the license for which you are granted permission to access CPT codes (thanks, greedy AMA), you can do the calculation work you need.

Share and enjoy.  Flash-based pediatric coding tool coming soon, I hope.

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Thu, 01/22/2009 - 10:46am — branb73

Chip, Thanks for sharing

Chip,

Thanks for sharing this information.

This might seem obvious to a lot of your readers, but I would argue there are lots of people that do not know what RVU’s are.

An RVU search in Google gives you about 551,000 links. More is not always better.

I know PCC (http://www.pcc.com/benchmark/rvupervisit.php) gives a good explanation (simple & to the point) about RVU’s.

The AAP ( http://www.aap.org/visit/RBRVSbrochure.pdf.) also had a nice PDF that discusses RVU’s.

Do you have any other reliable - easy, clean and concise - resource
that may help others understand RVU’s before downloading what you have
provided?

Brandon

Thu, 01/22/2009 - 10:55am — chiphart

Chip, Thanks for sharing

First, you are quite welcome. I feel obligated to do it, really - it’s ridiculous that this resource has to be developed by the people furthest down the totem pole, though (namely, a consultant working for peds). I have grand plans, however for a new application or two that will knock your socks off…we’ll see if I can get to it.

Second, I agree. The best RVU piece, imo, is the AAP one (good work on the links!). Actually…I prefer PCC’s seminar about how to properly set your prices. We’ve given it a fair amount over the years, it will definitely be at the Users’ Conference in Disney this year! I hope to have our standard AAP-endorsed event there, only more grand than usual.

There is another explanation I wrote for pediatricians on our WWW site that you might find helpful, too.

Perhaps I’ll post the slides to my class here? What do you think?

 

Chip Hart - Pediatric Solutions
chip @ pcc.com
800-722-7708
http://pedsource.com/blog