Workforce Compensation and Performance Improvement Resources

Though few external benchmark resources are available to help create the guiding metrics, boards continue to try to shift away from rewarding solely on organization-wide financial performance and move toward incentivizing for quality and patient satisfaction. Ultimately, though, fiscal goals still dominate when it comes to incentivizing the C-suite.

Each year, Modern Healthcare publishes a list of the "Best Places to Work in Healthcare." For this year's article, SullivanCotter Managing Director Chris Terranova Asselta was interviewed for her reaction to what organizations must do to create great work environments.

When hospitals and health systems need to re-evaluate their expenses, benefits programs are usually among the first areas to succumb to the chopping block, but providers should look closely at all benefits programs before making any cuts, according to a whitepaper from SullivanCotter

Physician shortages are prompting hospitals and other provider organizations to rely more on advanced practice clinicians, or physician extenders. In theory, APCs are less expensive because their salaries and compensation are less than those of physicians, according to a white paper from SullivanCotter

Developed by the Commonwealth Center for Governance Studies, Inc. at the University of Kentucky, this extensive study examines current profile and emerging patterns.

SullivanCotter announces expansion of health care compensation expertise with addition of Principal Andrew Lewis in Denver and Managing Principal Jose Pagoaga in the Atlanta office

The Summer 2012 issue of Enrolled Actuaries Report includes an article written by SullivanCotter Principal David Cohn which summarizes topics discussed during Session 702 at the Enrolled Actuaries Meeting.

How health systems also are looking at ways to hold onto their existing doctors.