Advanced Practice Provider Leadership and Organizational Survey
Gain strategic insights into APP leadership structures and compensation to optimize your care team performance and organizational design.
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Comprehensive Insights on APP Leadership and Workforce Programs
As health care organizations seek to transform care delivery by improving access, quality, services and affordability, supporting the advanced practice provider (APP) workforce and optimizing leadership practices are essential. This survey focuses on leadership roles and responsibilities, highlights strategies for integrating and engaging APPs across all specialties and evaluates workplace infrastructure for better APP workforce management.
Survey Highlights
Pay Practices:
Information on top advanced practice provider executives, heads of advanced practice, manager-level leaders and clinical-level leaders, including scope of responsibility and time allocation
Demographics, cost center alignment, HR practices and workforce planning
Recruitment strategies, annual merit increases and orientation and onboarding programs, student engagement, transition-to-practice or fellowship offerings and operational models
Work expectations, productivity measures, performance management approaches and advanced practice committees
Engagement, work effort and benefits
Key Benefits
Your time is valuable, which is why we’ve designed our survey systems to minimize your effort and provide an easy and flexible experience.
Data collected through our secure, online data collection.
Submit data once and qualify for all applicable surveys.
Prepopulated prior-year data whenever possible.
Submit compensation data through an Excel file upload.
Delegate survey tasks across your organization to other colleagues.
Enhanced multiphase auditing process helps to ensure data integrity and accuracy.
Dedicated participant support team and subject matter experts on hand to assist with any questions.
Dedicated participant support team and subject matter experts to assist with any questions.
Exclusive participant pricing, bundles as well as and early submission discounts.
Early access to results and pay practices reports.
Input on preferred topics for future surveys.
Access to pulse survey results covering hot topics.
Complimentary access to pay practices reports when submitting to those survey sections.
The pay practices report is delivered via SullivanCotter’s web-based Benchmarks360™ product suite – providing users with self-serve analytics dashboards for their unique reporting needs.
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Key Dates:
Opens: May 5, 2026
Early Submission: May 29, 2026
Closes: June 26, 2026
Publication: September 2026
Current Status: Closed
2026 Pricing:
Participants: $1,350
Health Care Nonparticipants (i.e., Direct Care Delivery): $5,400
Non-Health Care Organizations: Call 888.739.7039 for Pricing
Early Submission Discount: $300 Off Participant Price
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Frequently Asked Questions
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More details regarding submission and publication dates can be found here.
More details regarding pricing options can be found here. Non-health care nonparticipants will need to call 888.739.7039 for pricing information. Participants can receive $300 off the participant price by submitting their organization’s data by the early submission deadline
The survey report includes a pay practices report.
Pay practices reports are complimentary to organizations who have answered all questions labeled as required in the corresponding survey sections.
Our survey reports are delivered via our web-based Benchmarks360™ product suite.
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