Laser Application in Medical Sciences Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Department of Biology and Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: abdollahima@sbmu.ac.ir.
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Department of Inorganic, Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry. Faculty of Chemical and Technological Sciences. School of Medicine of Ciudad Real. Regional Centre of Biomedical Research (CRIB), Avenida Camilo José Cela, 10, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain.
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Department of Inorganic, Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry. Faculty of Chemical and Technological Sciences. School of Medicine of Ciudad Real. Regional Centre of Biomedical Research (CRIB), Avenida Camilo José Cela, 10, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain. Electronic address: Davidagustin.leon@uclm.es.
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Department of Inorganic, Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry. Faculty of Chemical and Technological Sciences. School of Medicine of Ciudad Real. Regional Centre of Biomedical Research (CRIB), Avenida Camilo José Cela, 10, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain.
Laser Application in Medical Sciences Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Department of Biology and Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Procedures performed by plastic surgeons tend to generate lower work relative value units (RVUs) compared to other surgical specialties despite their major contributions to hospital revenue. The autho...
A retrospective analysis of deidentified patient data from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program was performed, and relevant CPT codes for flap-based reconstru...
A total of 3991 procedures were included in analysis. With increased operative time and surgical complexity, work RVU per minute trended downward. Free-fascial flaps with microvascular anastomosis gen...
Longer operative procedures for flap-based reconstruction were designated with higher work RVU. Surgeons were reimbursed less per operative unit time for these surgical procedures, however. Specifical...
China's National Health Service Items Standard (NHSIS) establishes a relative value system and plays an important role in pricing. However, there are few empirical evaluations of the objectivity of th...
This paper presents a comparison between physician work relative value units (wRVUs) estimates for 70 common surgical procedures from NHSIS and those from the U.S. Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPF...
There was no systematic difference between MHSIS-estimated SRVUs and MPFS-estimated, but the dispersion of MPFS-estimated SRVU was greater than that of MHSIS-estimated, and the discrepancies increased...
China has made incremental progress in estimating the relative value of healthcare services, but there are shortcomings in valuation methods and their impact on pricing. The modular assessment method ...
The relationship between procedural complexity and relative value units (RVUs) awarded has been studied within some specialties, but it has not yet been compared across different surgical disciplines....
A retrospective review of surgical cases was conducted with the 2019 National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database. The top 10 most performed procedures per surgical specialty were identified...
Overall, operative time correlated strongly with work RVUs (R = 0.86). Orthopedic surgery had one of the shortest average operative times with the greatest work RVUs per hour, in contrast to plastic s...
Of all the surgical specialties, plastic surgery has the lowest RVUs per hour and the highest average operative time, leading to severe potential undervaluation compared with other specialties. This s...
Although previous studies have demonstrated inconsistencies between surgeon work and reimbursement, no previous study has calculated expected relative value units (RVUs) based on procedure-specific va...
The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program was used to identify orthopaedic surgeries with the highest procedural volume in 2019. For each Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code, variables r...
A total of 229,792 cases from the top 20 CPT codes by frequency in 2019 were identified. Base RVU values ranged from 7.03 mRVUs for arthroscopic meniscectomy to 30.28 mRVUs for revision total hip arth...
Our analysis demonstrates that current orthopaedic wRVUs do not appropriately compensate for objective measures of overall complexity as it relates to each procedure. Significant undercompensation in ...
On the basis of the tripartite mission of patient care, research, and education, a need has arisen to better support faculty in non-revenue-generating activities, such as education. As a result, some ...
The authors conducted a literature search of 5 databases without restrictions, searching for any articles on EVU systems published from database inception to January 12, 2022. Two authors independentl...
Fifty-eight articles were included. The most common rationale was to incentivize activities prioritized by the department or institution. Of those reporting funding, departmental revenue was most comm...
This scoping review summarizes the existing literature on EVU systems, providing valuable insights for application to practice and areas for future research....
To determine normative values for the Inner Effectiveness of Auditory Rehabilitation (Inner EAR) scale, a validated instrument utilized to study the impact of hearing loss and potential treatments....
Observational outcomes study....
Academic medical center and community care sites....
We included patients who were at least 18 years of age and completed the Inner EAR scale, pure-tone audiometry, and word recognition score assessment. Based on audiometry results, patients were catego...
Two hundred and twenty-two consecutive patients with hearing-related complaints met inclusion criteria. Mean Inner EAR scores for patients with bilateral hearing loss (29.2, interquartile range [IQR] ...
An Inner EAR score normative threshold value of 50 provides significant discriminatory ability between normal hearing and unilateral or bilateral hearing loss on audiometry. Normative values provide u...
Relative value units (RVUs) are broadly used for billing and physician compensation; however, the accuracy of RVU assignments has not been scientifically evaluated for craniofacial surgery. The author...
The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Pediatric database was queried to identify all cleft and craniofacial surgery cases performed by plastic surgeons from 2012 to 2019 based on CPT code....
The sample consisted of 69 CPT codes with 50,450 cases. In the top quartile, most CPT codes were craniofacial procedures including frontofacial procedures (23.53%) and craniectomies for craniosynostos...
The current RVU allocation to cleft and craniofacial procedures creates arbitrary disparities in physician efficiency, with cleft procedures disproportionately negatively affected. RVU assignments sho...
Current forms of payment of independent physicians in U.S. health care may incentivize more care (fee-for-service) or less care (capitation), be inequitable across specialties (resource-based relative...
Adolescence is a period of special significance for the development of personal and social values. Positive adolescent development (PYD) can be an ideal perspective from which to promote values in you...
Large-scale, global studies providing representative characterisation of sleep and its relation to cognitive performance are rare. In a recent study using a video game to assess spatial navigation, Co...
