Health Care

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.

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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.

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10 entry terms
  • Relative-Value Schedules
  • Relative Value Scale
  • Relative Value Schedules
  • Relative-Value Schedule
  • Scale, Relative Value
  • Scales, Relative Value
  • Schedule, Relative-Value
  • Schedules, Relative-Value
  • Resource Based Relative Value Scale
  • Resource-Based Relative Value Scale

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Previous Indexing

  • Fee Schedules (1988-1989)
  • Fees, Medical (1986-1989)
  • Health Services Research (1987-1989)
  • Reimbursement Mechanisms (1986-1989)

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  1. N03w.219w.521.710.305.500w
  2. N04w.452.313.500w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Relative Value Scales. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D015895. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D015895
  2. Relative Value Scales. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource-based_relative_value_scale
  3. Relative Value Scales. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7315782