Recalibrating Productivity Benchmarks

This Viewpoint explores several options to deal with the newly introduced efficiency adjustment, whereby all non–time-based codes had their work relative value units reduced by 2.5%.

Corresponding Author: Christopher P. Childers, MD, PhD, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific St, Box 356410, Seattle, WA 98195 (cpc01@uw.edu).

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