Workforce Compensation and Performance Improvement Resources

Managing Principal Tim Cotter and Physician Compensation Practice Leader Kim Mobley will examine the subject of "Compensation Oversight: An Emerging Governance Best Practice."

Findings released today in the 2012 Advanced Practice Clinician Compensation and Pay Practices Survey Report from SullivanCotter (SullivanCotter), a health care compensation and human resources management consulting firm, and the American Medical Group Association (AMGA), a trade association representing medical groups and integrated health systems, indicated an increase in demand for Advance Practice Clinicians (APCs) as well as an increase in salaries for this group.

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Compensation is usually a taboo conversation in every industry. Interestingly, health care leaders don't mind talking about how they calculate physician salaries, but don't ask them to chat about how they calculate their own. That conversation quickly runs dry.

Although the rule does not apply to not-for-profit health care and was not written with this sector in mind, it provides helpful guideposts for such organizations given the potential for governance-related "spillover" from the public company sector. Compensation committees in the not-for-profit health care sector would be well-advised to consider the extent to which applying the prescribed compensation advisor independence factors would strengthen their decision-making process, as conflicts of interest (real or perceived) can compromise an effective executive compensation governance process.