Proactive Workforce Planning: Grounded in Data
Featured in Fierce Healthcare, SullivanCotter’s President and CEO, Ted Chien, outlines the importance of utilizing robust data and benchmarks to build a more resilient workforce model that helps support the delivery of high-quality care and enhance financial sustainability.
Physician-Hospital Affiliation Strategies
Market pressures continue to test the financial sustainability of health care organizations nationwide. To succeed in a rapidly evolving marketplace, health systems, medical groups and physicians must work together to develop a more intentional and comprehensive affiliation strategy to help drive performance and improve outcomes.
PRESS RELEASE | Cost of Labor Increases Amid Ongoing Health Care Workforce Crisis
Health care organizations are in an ongoing workforce crisis, and they continue to struggle with high turnover, employee burnout, wage pressure and other recruitment and retention challenges – all of which have driven up the cost of labor, increased the competition for talent, and forced organizations to consider the relationships between workforce design, talent, compensation, and performance management.
INFOGRAPHIC | Split/Shared Billing – Change Management
Struggling to understand the recent changes to split/shared billing and how it will affect physician and APP workflow? View a timeline of past and upcoming changes to help properly plan for and address the pending modifications.
INFOGRAPHIC | 2023 Physician Fee Schedule Changes
Does your organization understand how changes to the 2023 Physician Fee Schedule may affect wRVU productivity in different specialties and settings - including hospital inpatient and observation, emergency services and skilled nursing facilities?
Physician Fee Schedule: 2023 Changes
As health systems evaluate changes to the 2023 Physician Fee Schedule, they must be aware of the impact on Medicare reimbursement, reported wRVUs, and provider compensation plans forspecialties most likely to be affected.
The Need for Competitive APP Compensation Programs
Featured in a recent article from RevCycle Intelligence, data from SullivanCotter's 2022 APP Compensation and Productivity Survey highlights the need for more dynamic compensation practices for nurse practitioners (NPs), physician assistants (PAs) and certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs).
Hiring Gains Alone Won’t Solve the Health Care Workforce Crisis
Health care is in the midst of an ongoing workforce crisis as the demand for care is outpacing the supply of labor. To help fortify the nation's health care system by building a sustainable pipeline of future talent, Ted Chien, SullivanCotter's President and CEO, discusses how hospitals and health systems can meet this challenge through smarter technology, resilient teams, and excellence in leadership.
PRESS RELEASE | APP Survey Results Highlight Dynamic Market for Talent
With median total cash compensation (TCC) up by 4.5% over last year for nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) across all major specialty categories – primary care, medical, surgical and hospital-based – this year’s results reflect a dynamic market requiring organizations to develop more competitive approaches to advanced practice provider (APP) compensation.
CRNA Compensation: Supporting Recruitment and Retention
A critical cornerstone of effective CRNA recruitment and retention strategies is the establishment of competitive compensation packages and desirable practice environments aligned with evolving CRNA preferences and market trends.
INFOGRAPHIC | 2022 APP Compensation and Productivity Survey
SullivanCotter’s 2022 Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Productivity Survey includes data from nearly 700 organizations on more than 100,000 individual APPs from across the country - providing health care organizations with critical compensation market data, information on key APP workforce practices, and insight into emerging industry trends.
Patient Panels and Provider Compensation
With risk-based contracting and value-based reimbursement at top of mind, many hospitals and health systems re-evaluating their panel management and patient care delivery strategies in an effort to better support the achievement of system-wide population health goals.
Becker’s Healthcare | Split/Shared Visits: Q&A with Zachary Hartsell
Featured in Becker's Hospital Review, Zachary Hartsell discusses recent changes to the Physician Fee Schedule and how the modifications pertaining to reimbursement for split/shared visits has the potential to alter the existing workflow of physicians and APPs.
PODCAST | Shared Services Performed by Physicians and APPs
Due to recent changes to the Physician Fee Schedule regarding modifications to billing for split/shared visits, many physicians and advanced practice providers are facing significant workflow changes.
PODCAST | Submitting Split/Shared Visits for Reimbursement
Zachary Hartsell joins BESLER's Hospital Finance Podcast to discuss revised conditions for submitting split/shared visits for reimbursement
INFOGRAPHIC | Pulse Survey Results: 2021 Physician Fee Schedule Changes
Learn more about how organizations are addressing the 2021 Physician Fee Schedule changes with insight from SullivanCotter's recent pulse survey
INFOGRAPHIC | Split/Shared Visits
Learn more about split/shared visits and the impact and opportunity of recent changes to the Physician Fee Schedule
INFOGRAPHIC | Advanced Practice Provider Productivity
As health care organizations look for ways to better utilize and retain their clinical workforce, effectively measuring and projecting advanced practice provider productivity is imperative.
E-Book | Key Agenda Items for Health Care Board Committees
Featured in McDermott Will & Emery's popular e-book series, SullivanCotter highlights important items for both the Human Capital and Compensation Committees to consider as health care organizations move forward with planning in 2022 and beyond.
INFOGRAPHIC | 2021 Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Productivity Survey
As health care organizations nationwide continue to increase the size of their advanced practice provider workforce, market interest in and need for data-driven intelligence to help recruit, retain, and engage this critical provider group is growing. Learn more from SullivanCotter's 2021 Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Productivity Survey.