제 목    laSNHYGXBRUE 이 름    Mathew 날 짜    2018/06/29 조 회    1 I support Manchester United proteini.si u bih And that’s when Harvard economist William Hsiao entered the scene. In 1988, he and his team unveiled what they hoped would be a rational process for setting physicians’ reimbursement rates. The result came to be known as the resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS). By interviewing hundreds of doctors from dozens of specialties, they painstakingly compared thousands of medical procedures—everything from removing a polyp to a lung transplant—and assigned each a relative value unit (RVU) according to three main factors: one, the amount of work it takes for a doctor to perform a given procedure; two, a doctor’s practice costs; and three, malpractice liability. Every year, Congress then sets a multiplier, converting that RVU into dollars.