Helping Health Plans Strengthen Leadership & Workforce Strategy
As reimbursement model, regulatory, and consolidation pressures intensify, health plans must align and retain talent across the enterprise to support strategy and performance.
Contact Us to Get StartedWhen Changes Outpace Stability
Health plans face mounting pressure as reimbursement models evolve, regulatory requirements remain in flux, and consolidation continues to reshape the competitive landscape. At the same time, organizations must manage rising costs, strengthen member experience, and maintain loyalty in a marketplace that is increasingly consumer-driven.
Thoughtfully designed compensation, governance, and total rewards strategies have become critical to leadership continuity, organizational stability, and long-term performance.
Partnering with SullivanCotter
Compensation & Governance Insight Built for Health Plans
With more than three decades of health care experience, SullivanCotter helps health plans address complex executive and workforce compensation challenges with confidence. Through performance-aligned rewards and strong governance frameworks, we help health plans attract and retain key leaders while supporting sustainable organizational outcomes.
Our work goes beyond analysis. We partner closely with boards and leadership teams to evaluate current programs, identify gaps and risk areas, and implement compensation and governance solutions aligned with market realities, regulatory considerations, and organizational strategy. We combine deep industry knowledge with robust benchmarking data to support informed, defensible decisions.
How We Help
SullivanCotter supports health plans with a range of services that assist leaders in driving workforce and organizational performance.
Design organizations that support leadership effectiveness and strategy execution.
Align roles, responsibilities, and capabilities to support organizational priorities and performance.
Benchmark compensation against the market to assess competitiveness and inform pay decisions.
Design rewards that align with performance, retention, and organizational priorities.
Develop incentives and goals that reinforce operating and strategic priorities.
Strengthen workforce alignment, collaboration, and accountability.
Strengthen leadership pipelines and succession readiness.
Support adoption of new strategies, structures, and ways of working to ensure successful and sustained change.
Partner with SullivanCotter
Through Co-Sourcing
SullivanCotter’s co-sourcing model provides embedded support within your HR and compensation function—delivering ongoing benchmarking, administration, and advisory expertise.
We work alongside your team to maintain operational continuity, strengthen governance, and ensure consistent, data-driven execution. Our approach helps organizations manage complexity while building long-term internal capability.
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Insight Spotlight
Executive Compensation Trends & Highlights
Executive compensation is rapidly evolving, and boards and health plan leadership must stay ahead of key trends to remain competitive and defensible. SullivanCotter’s 2025 Executive Compensation Insights infographic highlights market shifts in pay practices, incentive design, performance measures, and governance expectations across the health care industry.
These insights help boards and compensation committees understand emerging practices and make better decisions around executive rewards, accountability, and long-term value alignment.
Read the InfographicFeatured Surveys
SullivanCotter’s Health Care Management and Executive Compensation Survey is one of the most comprehensive datasets of its kind for health care organizations, including health plans. The survey provides benchmarking on base pay, total cash compensation, long-term incentives, governance practices, and the latest trends in executive rewards—helping health plans inform their workforce strategies. Get familiar with this and other SullivanCotter surveys below.
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.
Pulse on the Industry
Stay current with research and thought leadership from SullivanCotter on workforce analytics, operating models, retention drivers, and the evolving challenges facing health plans.
Our Full Capabilities
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
Learn MoreLet’s Architect Your Solution
Ready to strengthen your health plan’s workforce strategy in today’s complex environment? SullivanCotter helps align compensation, governance, and total rewards to support performance, retention,
and long-term stability.
