Redefine Care Teams to Transform Patient Care
Advanced Practice Providers play a central role in expanding access, improving efficiency, and supporting sustainable care delivery models.
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Why Care Teams Struggle to Keep Pace with Demand
Today’s care delivery models are under pressure from rising patient demand, decreased reimbursement, access constraints, and escalating costs. When advanced practice providers (APPs) are underutilized or misaligned within care teams, inefficiencies increase and additional strain is placed on physicians—driving higher costs, longer wait times, inconsistent patient experiences, and provider dissatisfaction.
Many organizations rely on legacy processes that define who delivers care and how it is delivered—often failing to align physician and APP roles with evolving care models and strategic priorities.
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Insight to Modernize Care Delivery Models
Organizations that partner with SullivanCotter draw on deep experience in APP workforce strategy, role design, and care model alignment—grounded in decades of health care advisory work. SullivanCotter’s APP team is singularly focused on the APP workforce, with several members of the team who have served as APP executives at some of the top health systems in the country. This experience results in an increased ability to improve access, financial performance, and provider engagement more efficiently and at lower cost.
We help leaders assess how APP roles, team structures, and spans of control support care delivery goals, physician alignment, and operational performance. Through integrated workforce solutions spanning APPs, physicians, executives, and employees, we support care models that fully leverage APP capabilities and adapt as demand continues to evolve.
Essential Survey
Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Productivity
This survey collects data from more than 785 organizations including over 155,000 certified anesthesiologist assistants, certified nurse midwives, CRNAs, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants.
Learn MoreHow We Help
Operating Model & Strategy Alignment
Align APP workforce strategy with care delivery models, service line priorities, and organizational goals.
Organizational Design & Workforce Structure
Design care team structures, roles, and reporting relationships to improve efficiency, accountability, and performance.
Optimize Team Effectiveness
Improve how APPs and care teams work together through clearer roles, aligned priorities, and stronger decision-making.
Clinical Workforce Optimization
Optimize how APPs are deployed within care teams—ensuring roles are aligned and operating at the top of their license.
Leadership Succession & Development
Identify and develop APP leaders to support leadership continuity and strengthen care team effectiveness.
How We Help
Operating Model & Strategy Alignment
Align APP workforce strategy with care delivery models, service line priorities, and organizational goals.
Organizational Design & Workforce Structure
Design care team structures, roles, and reporting relationships to improve efficiency, accountability, and performance.
Optimize Team Effectiveness
Improve how APPs and care teams work together through clearer roles, aligned priorities, and stronger decision-making.
Clinical Workforce Optimization
Optimize how APPs are deployed within care teams—ensuring roles are aligned and operating at the top of their license.
Leadership Succession & Development
Identify and develop APP leaders to support leadership continuity and strengthen care team effectiveness.
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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.
Learn More“When organizations thoughtfully structure APP roles and leadership while integrating them into care teams, they create the foundation for greater access, stronger collaboration, and more sustainable care delivery models.”
Zachary Hartsell, APP Practice Leader, SullivanCotter
APP Workforce Surveys
Explore SullivanCotter’s APP-focused survey data, including compensation, workforce structure, role utilization, and leadership benchmarks.
Advanced Practice Provider Leadership and Organizational Survey
As health care organizations seek to transform care delivery by improving access, quality, services, and affordability, supporting the advanced practice provider (APP) workforce and optimizing leadership practices are essential. This survey highlights leadership roles, integration strategies, and workplace infrastructure for better APP workforce management.
Physician and APP CPT Work RVU Benchmark Study
This study provides CPT coding data based on 2025 and 2026 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Physician Fee Schedules. It enables organizations to identify specialty differences and analyze the projected impact of updating physician fee schedules in productivity-based compensation plans.
Pulse on the Industry
Stay up to date with the latest research, insights, and thought leadership from SullivanCotter on workforce analytics, organizational performance, provider supply and demand, and evolving care delivery models.
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
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Ready to strengthen your APP workforce and care delivery model? Contact SullivanCotter to get started.
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