Building a Physician Workforce Designed for Performance
Designing the optimal care team is essential to achieving a health care organization’s clinical, operational, and financial goals.
Contact Us to Get StartedChallenges Physician Workforce Leaders Face
Aligning physician compensation with an organization’s mission and strategic performance objectives is necessary to drive change and deliver long-term, sustainable results. But there are headwinds to manage across physician team styles and regions.
Solving Compensation
Model Misalignment
Investing in
Artificial Intelligence
Rethinking Care Model Design
Addressing Physician Shortages
Partnering with SullivanCotter
How a High-Performing Physician Workforce Happens
Organizations that partner with SullivanCotter gain access to experienced health care consulting teams, leading research on all aspects of physician total compensation and rewards practices, and insights that support organizational change.
Our comprehensive and integrated workforce solutions, which also include executive, advanced practice provider (APP), and employee compensation and performance strategies, are supported by our exclusive, industry-leading compensation and productivity data, enabling us to better advise our clients and help them achieve their strategic objectives faster.
Essential Survey
Physician Productivity and Compensation
Conducted for nearly 35 years, this survey is the largest and most comprehensive dataset of its kind and provides compensation, pay practices, and productivity benchmarking data for employed physicians and PhD providers and researchers.
Learn MoreHow We Help
Operating Model & Strategy Alignment
Align physician 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 physician teams work together through clearer roles, aligned priorities, and stronger decision-making.
Clinical Workforce Optimization
Optimize how physicians, APPs, and the broader care team work together—ensuring roles are aligned and operating at the top of their license.
Leadership Succession & Development
Identify, develop, and prepare physician leaders to support continuity, engagement, and long-term organizational success.
How We Help
Operating Model & Strategy Alignment
Align physician 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 physician teams work together through clearer roles, aligned priorities, and stronger decision-making.
Clinical Workforce Optimization
Optimize how physicians, APPs, and the broader care team work together—ensuring roles are aligned and operating at the top of their license.
Leadership Succession & Development
Identify, develop, and prepare physician leaders to support continuity, engagement, and long-term organizational success.
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.
Learn More“Physician workforce strategy today requires more than competitive pay—it demands alignment across roles, performance, and care delivery.”
– Courtney Dutton, Practice Leader, Clinical Workforce Services
Physician Workforce Surveys
Explore SullivanCotter’s comprehensive survey data—including compensation, workforce, and performance benchmarks—to attract, reward and retain physicians.
Technology & Data Spotlight
Benchmarks360™
Workforce Compensation & Clinical Productivity Manager
By combining our trusted physician and APP compensation data with proven consulting insights, Benchmarks360™ delivers a smarter approach to workforce decision-making.
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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 find new ways to help your physician workforce excel? Contact SullivanCotter to get started.
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