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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.