Work and wRVU

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I'm beginning the job search now in EP and I'm starting to hear about RVU based production. How many RVUs does the typical EP physician produce? I'm hearing rough minimums of 12,000ish

Also, how much actual work do certain RVU totals actually translate to? Like does 15,000 RVUs mean staying very late every day/ doing a crazy number of procedures and/or seeing like 30+ clinic patients day or is it do-able on a reasonable schedule? What is it at say 10,000 or 12,000 RVUs? Is there a certain RVU point at which you're producing so much in quantity that you sacrifice quality? How easy or hard is it to hit RVU targets assuming you're in an area where there's strong demand for EP services

I know there is tremendous variability in this as everyone's job is different including their mix of procedure/clinic time, lab throughput and setup, whether they do some general cardiology, etc but some insight or some representative examples would be helpful

 

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I am an IC in northeast. I make about 10K rvus. Most of them come from clinic and reading non invasive studies. Not much come from a cath lab especially CMS is cutting rvu for procedures and increasing them for outpatient visits

In the first two years, you won’t make much RVU’s as you won’t have clinic patients and most of procedures will done by your senior partners due to referral patterns. You will also take longer to see patients and do procedures than more experienced physicians. Your productivity will also depend on cath lab turnover time and how fast your MA is.

My partner who is pure EP does about 10K rvu and he is pretty busy