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RBRVS as a financial assessment tool. 1993

J T Donnelly

The relative value service units that underlie the Health Care Financing Administration's resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) fee schedule can provide an alternative basis for evaluating many financial aspects of a physician practice.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007182	Income	Revenues or receipts accruing from business enterprise, labor, or invested capital.	Income Distribution,Income Generation Programs,Savings,Distribution, Income,Distributions, Income,Income Distributions,Income Generation Program,Incomes,Program, Income Generation,Programs, Income Generation
D009985	Orthopedics	A specialty which utilizes medical, surgical, and physical methods to treat and correct deformities, diseases, and injuries to the skeletal system, its articulations, and associated structures.
D010816	Physician Incentive Plans	Compensatory plans designed to motivate physicians in relation to patient referral, physician recruitment, and efficient use of the health facility.	Incentive Plans, Physician,Incentive Plan, Physician,Physician Incentive Plan,Plan, Physician Incentive,Plans, Physician Incentive
D011216	Practice Management, Medical	The organization and operation of the business aspects of a physician's practice.	Medical Practice Management Services,Management, Medical Practice,Medical Practice Management,Practice Management Services, Medical,Managements, Medical Practice,Medical Practice Managements,Practice Managements, Medical
D002017	Budgets	Detailed financial plans for carrying out specific activities for a certain period of time. They include proposed income and expenditures.	Budgetary Control,Budget,Budgetary Controls,Control, Budgetary,Controls, Budgetary
D004649	Employee Incentive Plans	Programs designed by management to motivate employees to work more efficiently with increased productivity, and greater employee satisfaction.	Incentive Plans, Employee,Employee Incentive Plan,Incentive Plan, Employee,Plan, Employee Incentive,Plans, Employee Incentive
D005245	Fee Schedules	A listing of established professional service charges, for specified dental and medical procedures.	Fee Schedule,Schedule, Fee,Schedules, Fee
D005376	Financial Management	The obtaining and management of funds for institutional needs and responsibility for fiscal affairs.	Endowments,Financial Activities,Funds,Activities, Financial,Activity, Financial,Endowment,Financial Activity,Fund,Management, Financial
D014481	United States	A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.
D015895	Relative Value Scales	Coded listings of physician or other professional services using units that indicate the relative value of the various services they perform. They take into account time, skill, and overhead cost required for each service, but generally do not consider the relative cost-effectiveness. Appropriate conversion factors can be used to translate the abstract units of the relative value scales into dollar fees for each service based on work expended, practice costs, and training costs.	Relative-Value Schedules,Resource-Based Relative Value Scale,Resource Based Relative Value Scale,Relative Value Scale,Relative Value Schedules,Relative-Value Schedule,Scale, Relative Value,Scales, Relative Value,Schedule, Relative-Value,Schedules, Relative-Value