Towards gender equity in procedure compensation: how far have we come in 20 years?

Objectives: Discrepancies in the reimbursement of gender-specific procedures have been reported since the beginning of the fee-for-service model. Procedure-based reimbursement is mediated by both work relative value unit (wRVU) and a specialty-specific compensation rate. Whether gender-based discrepancies in reimbursement have improved over time and which of these factors, wRVUs assigned per procedure or dollars per RVU, are the driver of these...