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. 2024 Aug 6;332(5):369-370.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.8478.

Rebuilding the Relative Value Unit-Based Physician Payment System

Laurence F McMahon Jr  1 , Zirui Song  2   3
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Rebuilding the Relative Value Unit-Based Physician Payment System

Laurence F McMahon Jr et al. JAMA. .
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Plain language summary

This Viewpoint explores the use of relative value units assigned by the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale in US physician payment systems and the need to rebuild this scale to reflect changes in modern clinical practice.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Song reported receiving grants from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (R01HS029467, R01HS029497), National Institute on Aging (P01AG032952), Arnold Ventures, and the Commonwealth Fund during the conduct of the study and personal fees from the Research Triangle Institute for work on Medicare/US Department of Health and Human Services risk adjustment, Google Ventures for academic lectures outside of this work, and for providing consultation in legal cases. No other disclosures were reported.

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