Featured in the Governing Health podcast by McDermott Will & Emery, Tim Cotter discusses some of the latest trends in executive compensation - helping to inform board room decision-making through heightened engagement and specialized expertise.

In order to remain competitive in an increasingly complex and uncertain environment, health care organizations must develop total rewards programs that align executive and physician leadership talent, consider market trends and benchmarks, and support performance objectives.

SullivanCotter helps to analyze how the inconsistent application of peer groups between CMS’s new star ratings and the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program are creating sizable discrepancies in reported performance.

In this article from ACHE’s Healthcare Executive magazine, SullivanCotter’s Mark Rumans, MD, Chief Medical Officer, and Christina Terranova Asselta, Managing Director, discuss how health systems have created and defined new C-suite roles and changed their leadership teams to adjust to the rapidly changing health care environment.

With the onset of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, organizations are exploring more cost-effective ways to deliver executive compensation and benefits. With renewed industry interest in split-dollar life insurance programs, it is important to understand both the potential risks and rewards associated with such arrangements.

View highlights from SullivanCotter's 2018 Physician Executive Compensation Survey and 2018 Medical Group Executive Compensation Survey

View highlights from SullivanCotter's 2018 Manager and Executive Compensation in Hospitals and Health Systems Survey, which features data from over 2,300 organizations on more than 32,000 individual managers and executives.

Featuring data from SullivanCotter's 2018 Manager and Executive Compensation in Hospitals and Health Systems Survey and insights from Kathy Hastings, Managing Director, and Tom Pavlik, Managing Principal

In a recent edition of McDermott Will & Emery's Governing Health Podcast Series, Tim Cotter joins Michael Peregrine and Ralph DeJong to discuss the evolving role of the nonprofit health system director and the use of compensation as a key recruitment and retention tool.

SullivanCotter featured in Modern Healthcare to discuss the board's evolving role as hospitals and health systems navigate an increasingly consumer-driven marketplace for health care.

For some not-for-profits, fundraising professionals are considered the lifeblood of the organization, and the loss of key talent could mean a loss of momentum and/ or continuity in donor relationships. In developing a fundraising talent strategy for this year and beyond, organizations should consider proactive strategies to attract and retain high-performing and high-potential professionals, while also enhancing the capabilities of existing staff.

Tim Cotter, Chairman and Managing Director, discusses the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and other trends in executive compensation governance in McDermott Will & Emery's Governing Health Podcast Series

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published its newest Star Ratings, designed to measure and report hospital quality. These ratings have provoked a number of questions and concerns as more than 3,600 hospitals - regardless of size, breadth of services, or geographic location - are benchmarked against a collective average.

Using national benchmarks like the CMS Star Ratings can be a great way for specialty hospitals to help drive quality improvement, but only if they understand the nuances and complexities in the data and how to best analyze it.

As health care undergoes unprecedented change and the marketplace for talent grows increasingly competitive, hospitals and health systems must design executive compensation programs that effectively support the organization’s talent management strategy.

View an on-demand recording of this recent webinar hosted by the Health Forum/American Hospital Association, where industry experts from SullivanCotter discussed how to effectively design executive compensation programs that support your organization’s leadership talent management strategy.

Executive compensation programs are evolving to meet the needs of business transformation while providing compelling and sustainable rewards in an uncertain environment.

New data and insights from SullivanCotter's 2017 Manager and Executive Compensation in Hospitals and Health Systems Survey highlighted in Modern Healthcare's annual executive compensation analysis.

To help ensure the effective governance of executive compensation, SullivanCotter recommends developing a Compensation Committee Handbook –- a valuable resource that can be made available to all Committee members.