Any useful apps for tracking RVUs or CME?

[Stagg737]

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I'm a new attending in a new(ish) position at our hospital. Given the role I'm in, there is potential for a lot of fluctuation in terms of how many patients I'll see and the cpt codes I'll be using. I wanted to track the RVUs and cpt codes for each patient I see and was wondering if anyone has any experience with apps for this. It looks like the AMA has an app, but it's only free for 30 days and then is an $80 subscription. There are also a bunch of other apps available, but almost all of them have less than 10 reviews. I'm not worried about which codes to actually use, just recording them to keep track.

Apps to keep track of CME credits would also be helpful as I'll likely claim quite a few from sources like UpToDate and Doximity, but Excel would probably be fine for me with tracking those credits.

 

[psych_0]

I have tracked every wRVU I have ever done since day 1 of working my inpatient gig on Excel. Once you set up a template, Excel makes it easy to cut paste and just change the name of the month you're tracking. For CME, I use the website CE Broker because my hospital pays for the subscription. I like it because it knows which of those random one-off annual CMEs I need and offers me easy courses to meet the criteria.

One night I got an email from the state board saying my license would expire on Monday if I didn't complete those credits. This was a Friday. I just logged on to CE Broker, picked out 3 "classes" to get the credits, then finished it all in like 1-2 hours. Worth it for me but YMMV.

 

[JKinSC]

For CME, I use the website CE Broker

You might just be my new favorite person. I didn't know I needed this!

 

[splik]

I'm a new attending in a new(ish) position at our hospital. Given the role I'm in, there is potential for a lot of fluctuation in terms of how many patients I'll see and the cpt codes I'll be using. I wanted to track the RVUs and cpt codes for each patient I see and was wondering if anyone has any experience with apps for this. It looks like the AMA has an app, but it's only free for 30 days and then is an $80 subscription. There are also a bunch of other apps available, but almost all of them have less than 10 reviews. I'm not worried about which codes to actually use, just recording them to keep track.

Do you have self-coding at your hospital? Most hospital systems these days employ coders to do your coding (or contract out), even if you enter charges into the EMR. This matters because if they are coding differently from you (which invariably happens, even if they are wrong) then your own math is irrelevant. Also you should have access to monthly data on wRVUs you are generating. And if you don't trust them to do it, then you are already screwed anyway.

At my hospital we have "provider self-coding" for outpatient only, where if you pass an audit then you can self-code. Although they still seem to change them (and tend to f*ck it up) anyway 😡

 

[Stagg737]

I have tracked every wRVU I have ever done since day 1 of working my inpatient gig on Excel. Once you set up a template, Excel makes it easy to cut paste and just change the name of the month you're tracking. For CME, I use the website CE Broker because my hospital pays for the subscription. I like it because it knows which of those random one-off annual CMEs I need and offers me easy courses to meet the criteria.

One night I got an email from the state board saying my license would expire on Monday if I didn't complete those credits. This was a Friday. I just logged on to CE Broker, picked out 3 "classes" to get the credits, then finished it all in like 1-2 hours. Worth it for me but YMMV.

I'll definitely look into CE Broker, sounds like it's a great resource and if it's not too expensive something that would be essential for me. I may end up using Excel for wRVUs if I can't find an app I like, but I'm not really a fan of excel and prefer something on my phone that I can just plug numbers straight into on the go instead of trying to remember and organize them later.

Do you have self-coding at your hospital? Most hospital systems these days employ coders to do your coding (or contract out), even if you enter charges into the EMR. This matters because if they are coding differently from you (which invariably happens, even if they are wrong) then your own math is irrelevant. Also you should have access to monthly data on wRVUs you are generating. And if you don't trust them to do it, then you are already screwed anyway.

At my hospital we have "provider self-coding" for outpatient only, where if you pass an audit then you can self-code. Although they still seem to change them (and tend to f*ck it up) anyway 😡

We do self-code and our hospital also has a billing department, which is part of why I want to track my wRVUs. My incentive pay may potentially be a large portion of my income, and after a certain time period my base salary will be 100% determined by RVUs from previous quarters/years. So I'm trying to make sure I'm optimizing this now and ensuring I can get full credit for what I'm billing.