SullivanCotter recently partnered with a client to assess its professional services agreement (PSA) for anesthesia coverage – enabling the organization to stabilize coverage, improve financial performance, and enhance its service line strategy.

Dive into the latest benchmarks on APP productivity – including work RVUs, collections, patient visits, and more – from SullivanCotter's comprehensive suite of APP workforce 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.

Pediatric hospitals are reevaluating their overall clinical recruitment and retention strategies – including type and amount of incentives offered – as the competition for talent increases. We've compiled the latest benchmarks to show how organizations are responding!

SullivanCotter’s APP Compensation and Productivity Survey provides critical, data-driven insight into changes in compensation and pay practices for certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs). Dive deeper into the latest benchmarks!

Moving forward in a new value-based environment, organizations must align clinical compensation and reimbursement programs to maximize payer contracts and incentives. Learn how SullivanCotter partnered with a large, not-for-profit health system to achieve this!

Enhancing your APP leadership structures can help to support APP engagement, workforce planning, recruitment and retention, and greater alignment with physician workforce strategies.

Optimize reimbursement by aligning physician compensation more closely with value-based payer incentives. Learn more from our latest infographic!

As organizations strive to meet patient demand, one premium pay practice that continues to receive attention is on-call pay. Establishing an effective call pay approach for advanced practice providers can help to support care coverage needs, improve patient access, and maintain effective throughput.

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.

The competition for APP talent is unprecedented and is placing upward pressure on compensation as organizations look to bridge the gap between higher patient volumes and limited access to care.

Maintain effective relationships and foster greater engagement with clinicians to support long-term system sustainability.

As hospitals and health systems continue to address dynamic market, workforce, and operational challenges, ensuring financial sustainability is necessary. This can be found in the orchestrated confluence of strategically aligned and rationalized service portfolios, performance metric and incentive alignment, clinical workforce design, and performance optimization.

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.

Health care organizations are under pressure to ensure proper staffing and continuity of care to support the communities they serve. In addition to determining the right number and type of clinicians, organizations must also monitor potential retirements and reductions in clinical productivity levels to help inform succession planning needs.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.