Strategic Benefits Tailored to Your Health Care Workforce
In today’s competitive health care labor market, benefits strategies must attract and retain key talent, promoting their well-being while remaining sustainable, compliant, and aligned with long-term organizational priorities.
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The Benefits Landscape is Growing More Complex
Balancing competitiveness with compliance, financial risk, and stakeholder optics has become increasingly difficult. Legacy benefits structures often lack alignment with compensation philosophy and total rewards strategy—creating exposure in recruitment, retention, succession planning, and governance defensibility.
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Bring Structure, Clarity, and Strategic Alignment to Benefits Programs
SullivanCotter helps health care organizations modernize benefits strategies through a disciplined, data-driven approach grounded in deep industry insight and market intelligence. We assess benefits programs through multiple lenses—including competitiveness, cost efficiency, compliance considerations, stakeholder optics, well-being impact, retention value and alignment with compensation philosophy—to help leaders make informed and impactful decisions.
From program assessment and redesign through to implementation and ongoing support, we partner with organizations to ensure benefits strategies support leadership continuity, evolving workforce needs, and broader total rewards objectives.
Areas of Expertise:
Retirement Deferred Compensation
Insurance Arrangements, Including Split-Dollar Life Insurance
Time-Off & Leave Programs
Tax Efficiency
Stakeholder Optics
Severance Structures
How We Help
SullivanCotter combines market benchmarking, financial analysis, and health care-specific advisory expertise to help organizations assess, design, implement and administer benefits programs that are competitive, sustainable, impactful and aligned with organizational strategy.
Evaluate your current benefits program through the lens of:
Market competitiveness and alignment with philosophy
Effectiveness and efficiency
Optics
Financial risks and tax implications
Wellbeing impact
Compliance
Modernize benefits structures to support evolving workforce needs, including:
Deferred compensation, retention, and retirement arrangements
Split-dollar life insurance
Time-off and leave programs
Insurance and other supplemental benefits
Severance structures and transition strategies
Continuing Medical Education (CME) and other professional benefits for providers
Relocation and travel benefits
Support successful rollout, administration, and governance of benefits programs through:
Implementation planning and oversight
Communications strategy and leadership messaging
Plan document review
Administrative support
Monitoring of financial effectiveness and risks
“The most effective organizations take a deliberate and strategic approach to benefits—aligning programs with organizational priorities as part of a total rewards strategy that attracts and retains talent.”
Stuart Harvey, Managing Principal & Benefits Practice Leader, SullivanCotter
Insight Spotlight
Physician Time Off & Leave Practices
Your physicians are mission-critical, and so is their well-being. Are your PTO and leave benefits keeping up?
Our 2025 Employed Physician Time Off and Leave Practices Survey offers new insights into balancing equitable leave with the financial impact of physician absences across salary, productivity and shift-based models.
Tap Into Our Survey Insights
Focused exclusively on health care organizations, SullivanCotter’s Benefits Practices in Health Care Organizations Survey provides insight into executive, physician, and employee benefits practices. Look to this survey and others to stay current on emerging trends in benefits including deferred compensation, paid time off, severance, and disability program design.
Benefits Practices in Health Care Organizations Survey
Uniquely focused on health care organizations, this survey helps address challenges in executive, physician, and employee benefits programs, including optimizing offerings, implementing retirement plans for evolving roles, and keeping pace with trends in paid time off, severance, and disability programs.
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Stay up to date with our latest research and thought leadership from SullivanCotter and Lotis Blue on workforce planning, workforce analytics, operating models, retention drivers, and organizational performance.
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Benefits are a critical part of your total rewards strategy, but not the only piece of the puzzle. See how else we can help to support your compensation goals and philosophy.
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Ready to evolve your organization’s benefits strategy to meet today’s workforce expectations while supporting long-term sustainability? Contact SullivanCotter to get started.
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There’s Much More To SullivanCotter Than Just Compensation Data
Our Full Capabilities
There’s Much More To SullivanCotter Than Just Compensation Data
How does your health care workforce compare to its peers? At SullivanCotter, we deliver sophisticated analytics and actionable insights to help you evaluate your organization’s size, structure, cost, and performance — so you can make confident, data-driven decisions.
SullivanCotter Solutions:
Workforce Metrics Benchmarking
Learn MoreYour system’s organizational design, operating models, and workforce structures are deeply interconnected. How can you ensure they’re all working in alignment to support strategy, performance, and care delivery? We partner with health care leaders to build dynamic and scalable solutions that adapt to evolving market demands.
SullivanCotter Solutions:
Operating Model & Strategy Alignment
Organizational Design & Workforce Structure
Learn MoreYour people are your purpose. Design total compensation and rewards programs that attract, retain, and motivate the right talent. Using deep industry insight, proprietary benchmarking data, and tailored consulting, we partner with organizations to build competitive pay structures that balance workforce needs with overall financial imperatives.
SullivanCotter Solutions:
Workforce Compensation Benchmarking
Compensation Design & Total Rewards
Fair Market Value & Commercial Reasonableness
Learn MoreSullivanCotter helps health care leaders improve workforce effectiveness and organizational performance by aligning strategy, structure, and talent. Through data-driven benchmarking and expert guidance, we enable organizations to optimize team effectiveness, support leadership development and succession planning, and accelerate change.
SullivanCotter Solutions:
Performance Analytics & Advisory Services
Leadership Succession & Development
Physician Affiliation & Optimization
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