iRVU : Hospital

Physician income relies on productivity. With more than 70 percent of physicians getting paid on the basis of work relative value units, or RVUs, tracking your own productivity is essential to knowing what your productivity pay will be.

iRVU lets you track work RVUs for inpatient medical services such as new patient history and physical exams, critical care, consultations, and follow-up visits at the point of care. Just type in the number of each type of patient encounter you perform, and iRVU does the work for you. Type in the number of new patient encounters for each coding level, and iRVU will automatically calculate your total RVUs, RVUs per encounter, Medicare charges, and Medicare charges per encounter.

Clinical productivity is often measured in terms of work relative value units, a measure defined by Medicare’s Resource Based Relative Value Scale. Determination of the appropriate level of service based on the medical care documented is complex, even for certified coding professionals. Few physicians receive training in documentation and coding rules during medical school or residency, and often learn on the job. These factors make appropriate medical documentation and coding key to practice survival. It can improve apparent productivity without increasing the workload.