The Governance Institute | Executive Compensation and Governance Trends for 2021 and Beyond

Featured in the September edition of The Governance Institute’s E-Briefings, SullivanCotter recaps the response of healthcare organizations in 2020 and outlines priorities for 2021 and beyond.


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Executive Compensation: C-Suite Pay Raises Target Transformational Leaders

New data and insights from SullivanCotter's 2017 Manager and Executive Compensation in Hospitals and Health Systems Survey highlighted in Modern Healthcare's annual executive compensation analysis.


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Executive Compensation: Pay for Performance Takes on New Meaning

Data from SullivanCotter's 2016 Manager and Executive Compensation in Hospitals and Health Systems Survey highlighted in Modern Healthcare's annual executive compensation analysis.


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‘How Trustees Can Improve Alignment by Overseeing Physician Compensation’, Trustee Magazine

This article, published in AHA’s Trustee magazine, offers guidance to trustees who are overseeing physician compensation arrangements so they can confront governance challenges, improve alignment and mitigate financial and reputational risk to their organizations.


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‘Value-Based Physician Compensation: A Link To Performance Improvement’, hfm Magazine

SullivanCotter co-authors article with Mayo Clinic Health System for hfm Magazine.


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SullivanCotter featured in annual analysis of trends in executive compensation by Modern Healthcare

Modern Healthcare published its annual article that analyzes trends in executive compensation. The article uses data from SullivanCotter's 2015 Manager and Executive Compensation in Hospitals and Health Systems Survey, and features insight from SullivanCotter.


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Simple and Strategic: The Next Generation of Executive Benefits

How are healthcare organizations strategically using executive benefits to meet the needs of a changing healthcare environment?


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The Growing Influence of For-Profit Pay Practices on Nonprofit Executive Pay

This article, featured in the October 2014 issue of Becker’s Hospital Review magazine, addresses why not-for-profit governing boards and compensation committees are beginning to look at the pay practices of for-profit companies.


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Modern Healthcare Examines Executive Compensation Trends Using SullivanCotter Survey

Using preliminary results from SullivanCotter's Manager and Executive Compensation in Hospitals and Health Systems Survey, Modern Healthcare publishes an annual article that analyzes trends in executive compensation.


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Aligning Physician Compensation With Strategic Goals

The cover article of the July 2014 issue of hfm chronicles how Mayo Clinic Health System (MCHS) turned a complex array of physician compensation plans into a single integrated plan that aligned physicians and provided value-based care to their patients.


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The Perils of Payment

This article, featured in the July/August 2014 issue of Trustee magazine, addresses the risks and complexities of financial arrangements between hospitals and physicians.


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SullivanCotter Data Reflected in “Shift in Payment Models Alters Physician Compensation”

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.


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Pay Gap Between Specialists, Primary Care Physicians Diminishing, According to Becker’s Hospital Review Article

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


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“Ten Most Important Matters Your CEO Should Know About His or Her Employment Contract”

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


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HealthLeaders Media Quotes Sally LaFond in “C-Suite Compensation Remains Taboo”

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.


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Kathy Hastings and Sally LaFond Contribute to HealthLeaders Media Article, “Volume, Value and Compensation Metrics”

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.


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SullivanCotter Co-Sponsors “Governance in Large Nonprofit Health Systems” Study

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


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David Cohn describes “Fiduciary Responsibilities: Understanding the Risks” in Enrolled Actuaries Report

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.


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Kim Mobley quoted in American Medical News article, “Hospital Hiring of Physicians Picks Up Steam”

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


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