PRESS RELEASE | Health Care Organizations Deploy Cost-Cutting Initiatives as Labor Costs Grow

As labor expenditure remains high due to ongoing health care workforce challenges, many hospitals and health systems are reevaluating the size and shape of their employee populations to offset rising costs and create a more affordable and sustainable workforce architecture. Learn about key findings from SullivanCotter’s 2023 Workforce Metrics Benchmark Survey.


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INFOGRAPHIC | Academic Medical Center Compensation Trends

Learn how your academic medical center compares to national benchmarks with data-driven insight into pay levels, productivity, work effort allocation and more.


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ARTICLE | Co-sourcing Strategic Compensation Management Initiatives

As health care organizations continue to struggle with ongoing clinical workforce shortages, it’s important to note that other non-clinical roles and shared services departments are facing similar staffing challenges. If in-house compensation and human resources teams are finding themselves overburdened or understaffed during such an unprecedented time, co-sourcing can provide interim support to help alleviate any constraints in timing, resources, recruitment or experience.


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PRESS RELEASE | Median Hourly Rates Up by Over 5% for Health Care Employees

Learn about emerging trends in employee compensation - including base hourly pay increases, internal minimums, premium pay and more - from SullivanCotter's 2023 Health Care Staff Compensation Survey Report.


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ARTICLE | Assessing Pay Equity

In an article published by the American Association of Provider Compensation Professionals, SullivanCotter outlines how health care organizations can effectively monitor, measure and achieve pay equity.


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INFOGRAPHIC | 2023 Physician Compensation Insights

According to SullivanCotter’s 2023 Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey report, physician supply and demand imbalances have resulted in total cash compensation increases as well as increased pressure on physician employers to reduce annual work effort expectations in many shift-based specialties.


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INFOGRAPHIC | Workforce Size

As health care organizations look for better ways to optimize care delivery and improve performance, effectively managing the size, shape and complexity of the workforce remains a key initiative.


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INFOGRAPHIC | 2022 Provider On-Call Compensation Survey

With over 280 participating organizations providing information on nearly 2,950 individual call contracts, the 2022 Provider On-Call Compensation Survey provides hospitals and health systems with the data they need to help address complex call pay issues, negotiate contracts and evaluate physician fair market value.


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INFOGRAPHIC | 2023 CRNA Compensation and Pay Practices

SullivanCotter’s Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Compensation and Productivity Survey provides critical base salary and total cash compensation benchmarking information for APPs, including CRNAs.


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INFOGRAPHIC | CMS Proposes Further Delay in Split/Shared Billing Changes

Struggling to understand the recent changes to split/shared billing and how it will affect physician and APP workflow? View a timeline of past and upcoming changes to help properly plan for and address the pending modifications.


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INFOGRAPHIC | 2023 Executive Compensation Planning

SullivanCotter can help your organization design a comprehensive executive compensation program that supports your team.


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INFOGRAPHIC | 2023 CRNA Pulse Survey

SullivanCotter recently surveyed National APP Advisory Council and Large Clinic® Group members to capture the most current and relevant CRNA pay practices.


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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.


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Physician-Hospital Affiliation Strategies

Market pressures continue to test the financial sustainability of health care organizations nationwide. To succeed in a rapidly evolving marketplace, health systems, medical groups and physicians must work together to develop a more intentional and comprehensive affiliation strategy to help drive performance and improve outcomes.


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Utilizing Physician Compensation and Productivity Benchmarks

Changes to the Physician Fee Schedule have materially impacted the most recent set of physician compensation and productivity benchmarks. As a result, year-over-year comparisons of survey benchmarks require special review and must be carefully considered when incorporating insights into workforce planning and compensation decision-making.


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INFOGRAPHIC | Split/Shared Billing – Change Management

Struggling to understand the recent changes to split/shared billing and how it will affect physician and APP workflow? View a timeline of past and upcoming changes to help properly plan for and address the pending modifications.


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INFOGRAPHIC | 2023 Physician Fee Schedule Changes

Does your organization understand how changes to the 2023 Physician Fee Schedule may affect wRVU productivity in different specialties and settings - including hospital inpatient and observation, emergency services and skilled nursing facilities?


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Physician Fee Schedule: 2023 Changes

As health systems evaluate changes to the 2023 Physician Fee Schedule, they must be aware of the impact on Medicare reimbursement, reported wRVUs, and provider compensation plans forspecialties most likely to be affected.


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The Need for Competitive APP Compensation Programs

Featured in a recent article from RevCycle Intelligence, data from SullivanCotter's 2022 APP Compensation and Productivity Survey highlights the need for more dynamic compensation practices for nurse practitioners (NPs), physician assistants (PAs) and certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs). 


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Rethinking Executive Compensation and Performance Metrics

Ted Chien discusses how health care leaders of today must strike a delicate balance that requires managing financial and growth metrics, increasing the speed of transformation, and building the health systems of tomorrow. So how do we redefine compensation models to reward all these behaviors?


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