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RVS Update Committee (RUC)

The RVS Update Committee (RUC) is a volunteer group of 32 physicians and other health care professionals who advise Medicare on how to value a physician's work. Learn more about what the RUC does at the AMA.

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Apr 29, 2025 ·

RUC recommendations, minutes & voting

Recommendations from the RVS Update Committee’s (RUC’s) Relativity Assessment Workgroup and CMS for new and revised CPT codes.

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Apr 29, 2025 ·

E/M changes have led to more clinically meaningful documentation

Changes developed by the AMA and adopted by CMS to simplify E/M documentation have made these tasks more relevant, says physician survey.

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Apr 25, 2025 ·

RBRVS overview

Download resource PDFs to gain an understanding of the physician payment system used by Medicare and most other payers.

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How this senior physician sustains joy in practice

After 50-plus years in medicine, Hattiesburg Clinic cardiologist Thad F. Waites, MD, says he’s never had a single day of burnout. Find out why.

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