Hospitals and health systems nationwide are negotiating supplemental payments with their private radiology group affiliates. These payments help ensure the radiologists are paid fair market value compensation for their hospital facility services. In our work helping facilitate discussions between radiology groups and health systems, we've observed a stumbling block: the story told by compensation surveys as to what private groups should be collecting per work RVU does not ref

Work RVUs (wRVUs) are commonly used to measure physician productivity, a ccounting for the technical skills, physical effort, mental effort, judgment, and the amount of time required to perform a given service or procedure. Under many physician compensation plans, a physician is paid a specific dollar amount per wRVU generated. Significant amounts of money may be tied to wRVUs, so it is important that health systems and physicians have confidence that wRVU totals accurately r