Orthopaedics Today – September 2017
by Sarah Wiskerchen
In hospital employment settings, as well as large groups, work relative value unit-based compensation agreements and formulas are often standard. Understanding how work relative value units are credited is an essential element of creating or negotiating relative value unit-based compensation. Our firm has found there is no
single method applied within physician organizations that use relative value unit-based compensation. This article explains why some work relative value unit reductions make sense and others should be carefully addressed with administrators.