Press Release | SullivanCotter and Lotis Blue Release 2026 Health Care Workforce Retention Study
For nearly 35 years, SullivanCotter has delivered critical compensation benchmarks to the nation’s top hospitals and health systems. Learn more about this year's survey suite!
The Science of Staying: The Next Chapter in Clinician Retention
Our new report entitled draws on feedback from more than 1,000 clinicians across 300+ health care organizations to provide the psychological drivers behind turnover and retention.
FORBES | Health Care Access, Labor, and Compensation Challenges
We know the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will significantly alter the U.S. health care environment – but how can health care leaders prepare? Learn more from SullivanCotter's President and CEO, Ted Chien.
Press Release | Participation Open for 2026 Health Care Compensation Surveys
For nearly 35 years, SullivanCotter has delivered critical compensation benchmarks to the nation’s top hospitals and health systems. Learn more about this year's survey suite!
Press Release | APP Pay Compression is Growing as Organizations Address Patient Access
How are health care organizations balancing APP pay compression, patient access challenges, and retention pressures? New data from our 2025 Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Productivity Survey sheds light on what hospitals and health systems are doing to address this.
FORBES | How Health Care Leaders Can Respond to the OBBBA
We know the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will significantly alter the U.S. health care environment – but how can health care leaders prepare? Learn more from SullivanCotter's President and CEO, Ted Chien.
How Health Systems Can Respond to the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) is expected to have a dramatic impact on many health systems across the country. While much of the focus has been on the impact of Medicaid eligibility reductions and other revenue implications, a change to the tax code may increase compensation costs for many health systems.
Press Release | SullivanCotter Releases Results for 2025 Health Care Compensation Surveys
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.
FORBES | Aligning Clinical Contracts with Value-Based Care
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!
Press Release | SullivanCotter Opens Participation for 2025 Health Care Compensation Surveys
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.
Forbes | Fixing Health Equity and Access: Is Collaboration the Answer?
The industry is experiencing large gaps in care and patient access amidst ongoing labor shortages – all of which are hindering health equity programs. Learn more about how not-for-profit health systems can band together to enact real change from SullivanCotter's President and CEO, Ted Chien.
Press Release | Unprecedented competition for APPs driving increases in compensation
With the advanced practice provider (APP) workforce in high demand, median total cash compensation (TCC) continues to grow across all specialty categories. Learn more about annual increases in compensation from SullivanCotter's 2024 APP Compensation and Productivity Survey.
Forbes | How Health Care is Evolving to Combat Labor Shortages
With the health care workforce crisis in full swing, the industry requires more agile and innovative solutions if it hopes to forge a sustainable path forward. Learn more from SullivanCotter's President and CEO, Ted Chien.
PRESS RELEASE | Sullivan Cotter Holdings, Inc. Acquires Lotis Blue Consulting
“When we offer Lotis Blue services in conjunction with our portfolio of companies, we create synergistic services for health care and other not-for-profits that supports business transformation at all levels,” said Ted Chien, President and CEO, Sullivan Cotter Holdings, Inc.
The FTC’s Ban on Noncompete Clauses
In this article, SullivanCotter provides initial guidance for health care organizations to consider – including an overview of the Final Rule, potential implications on employment arrangements, and steps to take as they develop action plans to move forward.
Forbes | The Labor Crisis is Derailing Health Care Transformation
Without a stable and engaged workforce, health care organizations are limited in their ability to truly transform. Learn more from SullivanCotter's President and CEO, Ted Chien, on how organizations can address the ongoing labor crisis.
PRESS RELEASE | 2023 Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Productivity Survey
2023 survey results show larger increases for primary care, medical and surgical specialties (each at 5%) and modest growth for hospital-based specialties (2.5%) for both base and total cash compensation (TCC).
Proactive Workforce Planning: Grounded in Data
Featured in Fierce Healthcare, SullivanCotter’s President and CEO, Ted Chien, outlines the importance of utilizing robust data and benchmarks to build a more resilient workforce model that helps support the delivery of high-quality care and enhance financial sustainability.
PRESS RELEASE | SullivanCotter Expands Advanced Practice Provider Services Team
With the appointment of Zachary Hartsell as the firm's APP Market Leader and the addition of new consulting talent Lacey Buckler and Hadley Powless, SullivanCotter continues to build out a team of highly specialized experts and industry leaders in APP workforce compensation, utilization, care delivery and workforce planning.
PRESS RELEASE | Cost of Labor Increases Amid Ongoing Health Care Workforce Crisis
Health care organizations are in an ongoing workforce crisis, and they continue to struggle with high turnover, employee burnout, wage pressure and other recruitment and retention challenges – all of which have driven up the cost of labor, increased the competition for talent, and forced organizations to consider the relationships between workforce design, talent, compensation, and performance management.

















