Academic medical centers are under intense pressure as funding cuts for National Institutes of Health being to take effect. How are organizations preserving the academic mission of advancing science, training future clinicians, and care for the nation's most complex patients?

Understanding the nexus between physician compensation and compliance is critical in an active enforcement environment. Learn how a robust governance process can help to support compliance and protect your organization from risk,

Are lower professional collections and higher physician pay driving up costs at your community health system? Explore the latest data from our Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey.

With participation from more than 90% of the nation’s largest 200 health care organizations, these surveys represent one of the most comprehensive sources of health care compensation and workforce benchmarks available.

Your clinical workforce is critical to achieving the goals of value-based care. For many health systems, however, this strategy falls apart at the contract, compensation, and incentive level. Learn more from SullivanCotter's Ted Chien on how to adapt!

Struggling to maintain effective oversight of physician compensation. Watch our latest video to learn more from SullivanCotter's Mark Ryberg!

Robust physician compensation governance structures are fundamental to maintaining compliance. Dive deeper into best practices and common pitfalls from our experts!

A new generation of physicians is entering the workforce! However, they often have different expectations in terms of compensation, benefits, and pay structures. Learn more from SullivanCotter's Mark Ryberg on getting your compensation strategy up to speed.

Don't lose top physician talent to your competitors. SullivanCotter's Mark Ryberg shares effective new strategies to retain this critical workforce!

SullivanCotter recently partnered with a client to assess its professional services agreement (PSA) for anesthesia coverage – enabling the organization to stabilize coverage, improve financial performance, and enhance its service line strategy.

For more than 30 years, SullivanCotter has provided critical benchmarks and comprehensive total compensation information, analyses, and research to the nation’s top hospitals and health systems.

Moving forward in a new value-based environment, organizations must align clinical compensation and reimbursement programs to maximize payer contracts and incentives. Learn how SullivanCotter partnered with a large, not-for-profit health system to achieve this!

With physician compensation on the rise, maintaining compliance with fair market value and commercial reasonableness standard is critical in a complex and active enforcement environment. Learn more from our latest FMV overview!

Optimize reimbursement by aligning physician compensation more closely with value-based payer incentives. Learn more from our latest infographic!

SullivanCotter's Dave Hesselink recently sat down with Modern Healthcare to discuss how employers are getting more creative – beyond just increasing pay – to attract and retain physicians in a competitive marketplace.

Although median total cash compensation (TCC) continues to increase, it has returned to historical average growth of 3.5% following a year of significant increases in 2023. Learn more about changes in TCC, base salary, and wRVU productivity as reported in SullivanCotter's 2024 Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey.

Lear more about annual changes in physician total cash compensation and wRVU productivity by specialty area!

Maintain effective relationships and foster greater engagement with clinicians to support long-term system sustainability.

Fair market value (FMV) assessments aren't just about compliance – they also help to support a more holistic and well-rounded understanding of your physician workforce. Learn how to leverage these results more strategically!

As hospitals and health systems continue to address dynamic market, workforce, and operational challenges, ensuring financial sustainability is necessary. This can be found in the orchestrated confluence of strategically aligned and rationalized service portfolios, performance metric and incentive alignment, clinical workforce design, and performance optimization.