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  • Title: Using cost accounting in a medical group practice. An application using the resource-based relative value scale.
    Author: Berlin MF.
    Journal: Med Group Manage J; 1995; 42(3):22, 24, 26 passim. PubMed ID: 10155931.
    Abstract:
    With the presence of managed care increasing in our health care environment, today's practice administrator needs a method to determine whether the negotiated fee schedule, capitation rate, etc., is adequate. The only true method to make this determination is to undertake a cost study of physician activity. However, this approach could be tedious, cumbersome and beyond the resources of the practice. The author demonstrates a method to approximate the cost of a physician's activity by identifying the cost of a relative value. The relative value scale used is the resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS). The article also proposes other applications: comparative analysis, allocation of capitation payments and fee schedule development.
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