Using CMS Star Ratings to Drive Improvement at Specialty Hospitals

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.


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INFOGRAPHIC: Designing Health Care Executive Compensation

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.


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WEBINAR | A Board Imperative: Designing Executive Compensation to Drive Performance and Engage Leadership

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.


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Infographic: 2017 Health Care Executive Compensation Insights

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


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Executive Compensation: C-Suite Pay Raises Target Transformational Leaders

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.


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Infographic: Effective Governance of Executive Compensation

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.


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Infographic: Executive Incentive Plan Design in Pediatric Organizations

As health care continues to evolve, pediatric hospitals and health systems face a unique set of challenges in the way they recruit, engage and retain key executive talent. Adapting to industry transformation and aligning executive incentive plan design and reward strategies with both the organization’s annual and long-term goals is critical, and requires a close review of health care industry norms and best practices.


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General Industry Influence on Executive Compensation in Not-for-Profit Health Care

Jose Pagoaga, Managing Principal, and John Collins, Principal, discuss general industry's growing influence on executive compensation in not-for-profit health care in the March edition of the Governance Institute's E-Briefings.


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Podcast: Health Care Executive Compensation Trends

In the most recent episode of the Governing Health Podcast Series, McDermott Will & Emery sits down with Tim Cotter, Chairman and Managing Director, SullivanCotter, to discuss the complexities of establishing CEO compensation as health care continues to evolve.


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Emerging Roles in Value-Based Health Care

As the health care industry continues its transition to value-based care, new roles and industry trends are having a large impact on the way in which executives are compensated.


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Executive Compensation: Pay for Performance Takes on New Meaning

Data from SullivanCotter's 2016 Manager and Executive Compensation in Hospitals and Health Systems Survey highlighted in Modern Healthcare's annual executive compensation analysis.


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Aligning Pay With Performance in Endowment Incentive Plans

In this new Compensation Insight, SullivanCotter presents some key findings from the 2015 Endowment and Foundation Investment Staff Compensation Survey and outlines best practices for aligning pay with performance, assessing incentive plan effectiveness and other key factors for boards to consider in the compensation decision-making process.


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SullivanCotter featured in annual analysis of trends in executive compensation by Modern Healthcare

Modern Healthcare published its annual article that analyzes trends in executive compensation. The article uses data from SullivanCotter's 2015 Manager and Executive Compensation in Hospitals and Health Systems Survey, and features insight from SullivanCotter.


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Aligning Executive Compensation with the New Health Care Paradigm: What the Board Needs to Know

This Monograph publication from the Center for Healthcare Governance brings together several resources developed by SullivanCotter that provides insight and action items for executive compensation committees.


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Transforming Executive Incentive Compensation

This article, featured in the winter 2014 issue of the American Hospital Association’s Center for Healthcare Governance, provides insight into how health care organizations can structure executive incentive plans to align with transformational business goals.


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Simple and Strategic: The Next Generation of Executive Benefits

How are healthcare organizations strategically using executive benefits to meet the needs of a changing healthcare environment?


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The Growing Influence of For-Profit Pay Practices on Nonprofit Executive Pay

This article, featured in the October 2014 issue of Becker’s Hospital Review magazine, addresses why not-for-profit governing boards and compensation committees are beginning to look at the pay practices of for-profit companies.


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SullivanCotter Partners with McDermott Will & Emery in Presenting the Complimentary Webcast: Addressing and Managing Challenges in Health Care Executive Compensation

Along with Mary Samsa of MWE, Principal and Chief Actuary David Cohn examined current trends and best practices in this hour-long free event.


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Modern Healthcare Examines Executive Compensation Trends Using SullivanCotter Survey

Using preliminary results from SullivanCotter's Manager and Executive Compensation in Hospitals and Health Systems Survey, Modern Healthcare publishes an annual article that analyzes trends in executive compensation.


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Balancing Act: The Compensation Committee’s Role in the Peer Group Selection Process

A guide for balanced executive compensation programs through executive compensation peer group best practices.


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