Hospitalist work RVUs per shift
See your wRVUs per shift and per scheduled hour.
One period of your production report: the wRVUs, the shifts, and how long the shifts ran. You get wRVUs per shift, the number to compare month to month on the same schedule, and per scheduled hour, the one to use when shift lengths differ.
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Your wRVUs per shift and hour
Any period works, a week to a year, as long as the wRVUs and the shifts come from the same one.
Why a night posts fewer wRVUs
Your admits post under your name, and so does critical care when a rapid or a code on a cross-cover patient turns into 99291. The rest of cross-cover bills nothing: one E/M per patient per date, and the day team’s note usually takes it. Whether the 4 a.m. admit the day team re-sees at 7 is your H&P or theirs is group policy, and that policy is most of the gap between a night report and a day report.
See the work RVU for each codeUse your pace to check a target
Take the same period’s wRVUs and shifts to the target calculator, add the shifts you plan to work and your annual target, and it tells you whether this pace gets you there and the gap per shift.
Check your annual wRVU targetCommon questions
Should I enter work RVUs or total RVUs?
Work RVUs, the wRVU column on your production report. Total RVUs add practice expense and malpractice on top, and most contracts don’t pay on them.
Can I turn this into patients per shift?
Not from the wRVU total alone. A long list of follow-ups and a short list of admits can land on the same number. For census, use your encounter counts.
How the calculation works
Production and hours
- wRVUs per shift
- equals work RVUs ÷ shifts
- wRVUs per scheduled hour
- equals work RVUs ÷ (shifts × average hours per shift)
The hourly divides by scheduled hours, so the hour you stayed to finish notes after sign-out isn’t in it, and neither is time spent supervising an APP whose visits bill under their name.
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wRVU target
See what your wRVU target means per shift.
Enter a month of wRVUs and shifts, the shifts you plan to work, and your annual target. You get the year at that pace and the gap to the target per shift.
RVU bonus
See what your RVU bonus would pay.
Enter base, threshold, bonus rate, and the wRVUs you expect this year. You get the bonus, the year’s pay, and the effective $/wRVU.
Nocturnist salary
Does the night job pay more per hour?
Enter annual pay, shifts, and hours for a day job and a night job. You get each one per shift and per scheduled hour, and the night premium.
Work RVUs by code
See the work RVU for the E/M codes you bill on the wards.
Work RVU, total RVU, and the Medicare national rate for the hospital E/M, critical care, prolonged care and advance care planning codes, from the current CMS fee schedule file.
Medicare data
See what Medicare paid for hospitalist care in 2024.
Medians and quartiles for Original Medicare payments, services and patients per hospitalist in 2024, nationally and by state. Payment for billed care, not salary.