Dave Hesselink discusses results from SullivanCotter's 2019 Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey with Besler on The Hospital Finance Podcast®

Understanding Commercial Reasonableness in the context of a rapidly changing health care environment is critical, but navigating what this requirement entails can often be challenging.

Read a summary of results from SullivanCotter's 2019 Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey, which includes data on base salary, total cash compensation and clinical productivity such as collections, wRVUs and more.

As health care organizations today are faced with a number of competing forces, physician compensation programs continue to change in a rapidly evolving marketplace. View related highlights from SullivanCotter’s 2019 Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey, featuring data from nearly 700 hospitals and health systems.

SullivanCotter discusses how a systematic review of professional services agreements can help health systems better assess regulatory and financial risk, standardize contracting terms, and refine processes and oversight for contracting with providers.

Managing provider performance and compensation has grown increasingly complex, and many organizations lack the proper tools and technology to support this process. To help uncover opportunities for improvement, we facilitated a series of focus groups with hospitals, health systems and medical groups ranging in size from 500 - 2,000 providers.

View highlights from SullivanCotter's 2018 Physician On-Call and Telemedicine Compensation Survey, featuring data from 255 different organizations on 2,372 individual call contracts.

View highlights from two different sections of SullivanCotter's 2018 Benefits Practices in Hospitals and Health Systems Survey, featuring data from more than 200 health care organizations.

Developed in cooperation with Mayo Clinic, Provider Performance Management Technology™ is an industry-first, cloud-based solution that enables provider engagement and alignment through transparent performance-based compensation administration and analytical capabilities.

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.

Featured in the November 2018 issue of HFM magazine, Kyle Tormoehlen and Dina Unrath discuss how health systems must develop thoughtful strategies for evaluating physician practice acquisition opportunities due to the dwindling availability of acquisition prospects.

Featuring data from 45 health care organizations, this survey provides insight into the issues specific to hospital-based specialties, clinical work effort and the related compensation structures.

View highlights from SullivanCotter's 2018 Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey, featuring data from nearly 750 organizations covers more than 167,000 individual physicians and advanced practice providers.

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

SullivanCotter experts Dr. Mark Rumans, Chief Medical Officer, and Courtney Dutton, Principal, recently answered questions on physician compensation design and implementation - helping to uncover emerging trends and address some of the challenges health care organizations are facing today.

View highlights from the 2017 Hospital-Based
Physician Compensation and Work Effort Survey

SullivanCotter announces the expansion of the firm's physician workforce services with the hiring of industry leaders Ron Vance, Patty Bohney and an additional team of five talented consultants. All associates were previously with Navigant's Healthcare Practice, and bring specialized expertise in physician compensation and workforce performance.

View highlights from SullivanCotter's 2017 Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey Report

Hospitals and health systems are increasingly employing physicians in an effort to enhance physician alignment, improve quality, grow market share and increase revenue. This labor market trend has focused attention on physician benefits, which may differ from benefits offered to other employees.