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Relative Value Initiative is functioning and be considered a role model for the Quality Initiative.The Healthcare Interspecialty Quality Improvement ( HISQI ) may follow certain aspects of this model.

The current membership of the Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) is as follows ( may need updating ):

Members of the RUC committee listed below may serve an initial resource and their respective specialties could have some interspecialty borderFringe projects around quality improvement e.g Urology and Gynecology have many common topics of interest e.g Incontinence of Urine. With a table showing all the Specialties listed in rows and same in columns essentially on one to all in formation and simply list the common topics in their interspecialty boxes would give initial picture of this construct.

Members of the RUC committee are listed below and are originally shown on original page Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee


 * RUC Chairperson - Barbara Levy, MD
 * American Medical Association - William Mangold, Jr., MD
 * CPT Editorial Panel - Albert Bothe, MD
 * Health Care Professional Advisory Committee - Anthony Hamm, DC
 * Practice Expense Subcommittee - Scott Manaker, MD
 * American Academy of Dermatology - Scott Collins, MD
 * American Academy of Family Physicians - Walt Larimore, MD
 * American Academy of Neurology - Marc Raphaelson, MD
 * American Academy of Ophthalmology - George Williams, MD
 * American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons - Dale Blasier, MD
 * American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery - Charles F. Koopmann, Jr., MD
 * American Academy of Pediatrics - Margie Andreae, MD
 * American Association of Neurological Surgeons - Gregory Przybylski, MD
 * American College of Cardiology - James Blankenship, MD
 * American College of Emergency Physicians - Michael Bishop, MD
 * American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists - Sandra B. Reed, MD
 * American College of Physicians - J. Leonard Lichtenfeld, MD
 * American College of Radiology - Geraldine B. McGinty, MD
 * American College of Surgeons - John O. Gage, MD
 * American Geriatrics Society - Alan Lazaroff, MD
 * American Osteopathic Association - David F. Hitzeman, DO
 * American Pediatric Surgical Association - Samuel D. Smith, MD
 * American Psychiatric Association - Ronald Burd, MD
 * American Society of Anesthesiologists - Stanley Stead, MD
 * American Society of Clinical Oncology - David Regan, MD
 * American Society of Plastic Surgeons - James C. Waldorf, MD
 * American Urological Association - Thomas Cooper, MD
 * College of American Pathologists - J. Allan Tucker, MD
 * Primary Care Rotating Seat - M. Douglas Leahy, MD
 * Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Peter Smith, MD