As physician reimbursement shifts from a fee-for-service model to a value-based structure, expect to see changes in how compensation plans are drafted.

Managing Principal and National Physician Compensation Practice Leader Kim Mobley provides additional insight on physician pay initiatives.

A guide for balanced executive compensation programs through executive compensation peer group best practices.

A guide for executive compensation committees in surmounting the challenges faced to retain executive leadership in the current health care environment.

Even the most unlikely provisions of the contract can have serious tax implications.

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.

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.

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

Every once in a while, a new life insurance product or approach enters the market that will revolutionize our thinking. More often, an existing concept is repackaged and promoted as something that will revolutionize our thinking. How can you differentiate between the two?

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.

As of late, there has been heightened scrutiny around the salaries and compensation packages of non-profit hospital executives

As more physicians are becoming hospital-employed, will cost reductions and physician alignment come at the expense of physician compensation?

Hospital executive compensation is largely based on comparisons with similar positions in similar organizations.

A guest blog post by Warren Kerper, Managing Principal in the Boston office of SullivanCotter, appearing on Verrill Dana, LLP's Benefits Law Update.