Clinical productivity tool
RVU calculator for every specialty
Work RVUs, total RVUs, global periods, CMS physician-time estimates, and national Medicare rates for the procedures that actually drive each specialty. Sourced from the official CMS fee schedule, never a salary survey.
How to use this tool
From single code to full-year model
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Search any procedure or pick a specialty
Type a code (27447), a plain-English phrase ("knee replacement"), or shorthand ("tka", "egd", "mohs"). Or pick a specialty to see the codes that dominate its real Medicare billing.
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Read the code card
Each code shows its work RVU, practice-expense and malpractice components, facility vs office totals, global period, CMS median hands-on time, total physician work time, and the national Medicare rate at the current conversion factor.
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Build a clinical day (premium)
Add procedures with quantities to model a realistic OR day, clinic session, or call shift. Total wRVUs, estimated hands-on hours, total work hours, and the Medicare-payment estimate for the session.
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Project the year (premium)
Set sessions per week and working weeks per year. Add a $/wRVU rate from your own offer or contract to turn annual wRVUs into a compensation scenario. We never supply survey rates or promise income.
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Verify before you decide
RVUs change every January and with quarterly corrections. Cross-check any number that matters against the current CMS Physician Fee Schedule and your actual contract terms.
Decision support only. Medicare allowed amounts are payments to practices, not physician income; actual collections depend on payer mix, contracts, modifiers, and geography (GPCI not applied). CMS times are work-time assumptions, not guarantees of personal speed. Anesthesia codes are priced by base + time units and are excluded from RVU math. Not financial, legal, or career advice.
Common questions
How many wRVUs is a total knee replacement?
CPT 27447 carries 19.11 work RVUs on the CY 2026 Medicare fee schedule, with a 90-day global period and a CMS median hands-on time of about 97 minutes. Search any of ~4,100 codes in the calculator for the same breakdown.
How do I convert wRVUs to dollars?
Medicare pays total RVUs (work + practice expense + malpractice) × the conversion factor ($33.4009 in CY 2026, non-QPP), adjusted by locality GPCIs. Employed physicians are usually paid a contracted $ per work RVU instead. Enter your own contract's rate in the workload modeler.
Where does the data come from?
The official CMS Physician Fee Schedule relative value files, the CMS physician work time file, GPCI locality indices, and plain-language descriptions from the Medicare public use file. An automated pipeline refreshes it each CMS release; the dataset version is published on the methodology page.
Is the Medicare rate my income?
No. Medicare allowed amounts are payments to the practice; overhead, employer splits, and payer mix sit between them and physician income. The calculator labels this on every dollar figure.