wRVU Tracker Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers about what wRVU Tracker does, what it costs, which codes and CMS years it uses, and how it handles compensation, targets, reconciliation, and your data.
About wRVU Tracker
What is wRVU Tracker?
wRVU Tracker is a web-based physician productivity platform for tracking work relative value units (wRVUs). Physicians, advanced practice providers, and residents log the CPT and HCPCS codes they perform, and wRVU Tracker prices each entry with official CMS Physician Fee Schedule RVU values, totals productivity by day, week, month, quarter, and year, estimates compensation, measures progress toward targets, and compares output with specialty benchmarks. It runs in any modern browser on phone, tablet, or desktop, and can be added to a phone's home screen so it opens like an app.
What does wRVU Tracker do?
wRVU Tracker lets you: (1) look up work, practice expense, malpractice, and total RVUs for any CPT or HCPCS code; (2) log encounters one at a time, from favorites, or as a batch for an entire shift; (3) apply CPT modifiers with their RVU multipliers; (4) track productivity across multiple jobs, each with its own facility setting, compensation model, and CMS year; (5) estimate earnings from a dollar-per-wRVU rate or a salary-plus-productivity contract; (6) set weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly wRVU targets and see your projected finish; (7) compare annualized wRVUs with 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentile specialty benchmarks; (8) compare your totals with employer-reported RVUs; and (9) import and export your history as CSV.
Who uses wRVU Tracker?
wRVU Tracker is built for employed and productivity-paid physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, locum tenens and per-diem clinicians, and residents who want an independent record of their wRVU output. Hospitalists, emergency physicians, surgeons, primary care physicians, and proceduralists all use it.
Pricing
Is wRVU Tracker free?
Yes. The RVU calculator, CPT code lookup, specialty pages, GPCI pages, and guides are free and need no account. A free account adds procedure logging (up to 100 procedures in total, counted by quantity), one job, shift logging for locums and per-diem work, one active target, full analytics, compensation tracking, benchmark reference ranges, and CSV import and export, with no credit card required. wRVU Tracker Pro costs $14.99 per month or $119 per year and adds unlimited procedures, multiple jobs, multiple active targets, personalized benchmarking with your percentile and anonymized peer comparison, and priority support. Data you have already logged always stays viewable and exportable.
Codes, modifiers, and CMS data
Does wRVU Tracker support CPT and HCPCS codes?
Yes. wRVU Tracker includes CPT Category I, CPT Category II, CPT Category III, and HCPCS Level II codes from the CMS Physician Fee Schedule, about 7,600 codes for 2026. Each code shows its work RVU, office (non-facility) and facility practice expense RVUs, malpractice RVU, total RVU, and estimated Medicare payment. Category II codes carry no RVUs, and some Category III codes are carrier-priced.
Does wRVU Tracker support modifiers?
Yes. You can attach CPT and HCPCS modifiers to any entry, and the RVU value is adjusted by that modifier's multiplier. Supported modifiers include 22, 25, 26, TC, 50 (bilateral), 51 (multiple procedures), 52 and 53 (reduced or discontinued), 59, 62 (co-surgeons), 76 to 79 (repeat and related procedures), 80 to 82 (assistant at surgery), XE, XP, XS, XU, LT, RT, and telehealth modifiers such as 95. Modifier 26 records only the professional component, and TC only the technical component.
Does wRVU Tracker support MPPR (Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction)?
Partially. Modifier 51 applies the standard 50 percent multiple-procedure reduction to a secondary procedure's RVUs. wRVU Tracker does not automatically apply the separate CMS MPPR rules for the practice expense portion of same-day therapy or imaging services, so entries for those services show unreduced practice expense RVUs. Work RVUs, which most productivity contracts pay on, are not affected by therapy or imaging MPPR.
What CMS year does wRVU Tracker use?
wRVU Tracker uses the 2026 CMS Physician Fee Schedule as its current data, with a 2026 conversion factor of $33.4009 (or $33.5675 for qualifying APM participants). The 2025 schedule is also available. Each entry is priced with the fee schedule for its date of service: dates in 2025 use 2025 values and dates from January 1, 2026 use 2026 values. If your employer still pays on an older schedule, you can assign any CMS year from 2020 to 2026 to a job, effective from a date you choose. Every entry records the CMS year used to price it.
What specialties does wRVU Tracker support?
Every specialty that bills under the CMS Physician Fee Schedule can use wRVU Tracker, because it includes every CPT and HCPCS code. Specialty benchmarks (25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentile annual wRVUs) are available for more than 90 specialties and subspecialties, including hospital medicine, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, cardiology, gastroenterology, orthopedic surgery, general surgery, radiology, anesthesiology, dermatology, neurology, urology, psychiatry, and pediatrics. Free specialty guides and specialty RVU calculators list the highest-volume codes for each field.
Compensation, targets, and reconciliation
Can physicians track compensation in wRVU Tracker?
Yes. Each job can use one of these compensation models: productivity (wRVUs multiplied by your dollar-per-wRVU rate), salary plus productivity (base salary plus a dollar-per-wRVU bonus on wRVUs above a threshold), a flat rate per shift for locums and per-diem work (logged with shift logging), or tracking only. wRVU Tracker shows estimated earnings to date and projected annual earnings from your current pace. These are estimates based on what you enter, not payroll figures.
Can I model a productivity bonus in wRVU Tracker?
Yes. Choose the salary plus productivity model for a job and enter your base salary, your annual wRVU threshold, and the dollar-per-wRVU rate paid above that threshold. wRVU Tracker projects your annual wRVUs from your current pace and shows the bonus you are on track to earn. For example, with a $300,000 base salary, a 5,000 wRVU threshold, and $50 per wRVU above it, a projected 5,600 wRVUs shows a $30,000 bonus and $330,000 in total estimated pay. You can also set a yearly wRVU target at your bonus threshold to see how far ahead or behind you are. These are estimates from the numbers you enter; your contract and employer payroll are the final word.
Can physicians track productivity targets?
Yes. You can set weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly wRVU targets with a start date, an optional stop date, and an optional dollar-per-wRVU rate. Each target can be tied to a job. wRVU Tracker shows progress, pace compared with your work schedule, and a projected finish. Free accounts have one active target; Pro allows several at once.
Can I compare my RVUs with employer-reported RVUs?
Yes. Filter your logged history to the same date range and job as your employer's productivity statement and compare the totals side by side. Then export the matching entries as CSV for a line-by-line review. Your entries record the code, quantity, modifiers, and CMS year used, so you can find differences caused by missing procedures, modifiers, a different fee schedule year, or a different rate. wRVU Tracker does not import employer statements automatically; you compare against the totals your employer provides.
Your data
Can data be exported from wRVU Tracker?
Yes. Every account, free or Pro, can export its full logged history at any time, for a single year or for all years. Exported data stays available even if you reach the free plan limit or cancel Pro. You can also import historical entries from a CSV file using the provided template.
What export formats does wRVU Tracker support?
wRVU Tracker exports CSV (comma-separated values) files, which open directly in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and Apple Numbers. The Settings export includes date of service, CPT or HCPCS code, quantity, work RVUs, total RVUs, modifiers, notes, and the CMS fee schedule year. The History page export adds the code description and RVU per unit. PDF and native Excel (.xlsx) exports are not currently offered.
Does wRVU Tracker store patient information?
No. wRVU Tracker is designed for procedure codes and productivity totals only, not patient health information. Notes fields warn you if text looks like patient information, such as names, dates of birth, medical record numbers, or phone numbers. Your entries are private to your account and are never shared with employers or payers.
Comparison
How is wRVU Tracker different from other RVU trackers?
Most RVU apps are either a code lookup or a simple running total. wRVU Tracker combines both and adds: pricing every entry with the CMS fee schedule for its date of service, and recording that year on the entry; per-job settings for facility or office practice expense, compensation model, rate history, and CMS year, for clinicians with more than one employer; modifier-adjusted RVUs; target pacing that accounts for your work schedule; specialty percentile benchmarks with anonymized peer comparison; employer reconciliation with CSV export; and a free tier with public, no-login calculator and code pages. It works in any browser on phone, tablet, or desktop with no app store download, and it can be added to a phone's home screen so it opens like an app.