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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PRESS RELEASE | Cost of Labor Increases Amid Ongoing Health Care Workforce Crisis

Health care organizations are in an ongoing workforce crisis, and they continue to struggle with high turnover, employee burnout, wage pressure and other recruitment and retention challenges – all of which have driven up the cost of labor, increased the competition for talent, and forced organizations to consider the relationships between workforce design, talent, compensation, and performance management.


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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 | 2022 Workforce Metrics Benchmark Survey

Utilizing data from SullivanCotter’s 2022 Workforce Metrics Benchmark Survey – which includes information on 10 job families, 6 career level stages, and 3 demographic groupings – organizations can reevaluate their employee workforce planning and distribution efforts to help offset rising costs and create a more sustainable workforce architecture.


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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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INFOGRAPHIC | 2022 Health Care Staff Compensation Survey

SullivanCotter’s 2022 Health Care Staff Compensation Survey includes data from nearly 1,300 organizations on more than 1.2M individual employees- providing organizations with critical compensation market data, information on key employee workforce practices, and insight into emerging industry trends.


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PRESS RELEASE | APP Survey Results Highlight Dynamic Market for Talent

With median total cash compensation (TCC) up by 4.5% over last year for nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) across all major specialty categories – primary care, medical, surgical and hospital-based – this year’s results reflect a dynamic market requiring organizations to develop more competitive approaches to advanced practice provider (APP) compensation.


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INFOGRAPHIC | 2022 Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey

To help organizations address the impact of recent changes to the Physician Fee Schedule, SullivanCotter’s 2022 Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey Report includes two sets of benchmarks based on wRVU values from both the 2020 and 2021 schedules.


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CRNA Compensation: Supporting Recruitment and Retention

A critical cornerstone of effective CRNA recruitment and retention strategies is the establishment of competitive compensation packages and desirable practice environments aligned with evolving CRNA preferences and market trends.


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INFOGRAPHIC | 2022 APP Compensation and Productivity Survey

SullivanCotter’s 2022 Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Productivity Survey includes data from nearly 700 organizations on more than 100,000 individual APPs from across the country - providing health care organizations with critical compensation market data, information on key APP workforce practices, and insight into emerging industry trends.


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The Governance Institute | Executive Compensation in Pediatric Hospitals

SullivanCotter shares data and insights from a recent pulse survey on health care executive compensation in pediatric organizations


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Modern Healthcare | 2022 Annual Executive Compensation Article

Modern Healthcare features data and insights from SullivanCotter to discuss how the competitive market for talent has impacted executive compensation and pay practices.


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Pay Equity: Ensuring a High-Quality Analysis

Most people responsible for pay equity studies within their organizations have only a superficial knowledge of statistics. Yet, as the primary underwriters and overseers of the workers who are ultimately accountable for the overall quality, how can they ensure the analysis is reliable?


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Patient Panels and Provider Compensation

With risk-based contracting and value-based reimbursement at top of mind, many hospitals and health systems re-evaluating their panel management and patient care delivery strategies in an effort to better support the achievement of system-wide population health goals.


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Becker’s Healthcare | Split/Shared Visits: Q&A with Zachary Hartsell

Featured in Becker's Hospital Review, Zachary Hartsell discusses recent changes to the Physician Fee Schedule and how the modifications pertaining to reimbursement for split/shared visits has the potential to alter the existing workflow of physicians and APPs.


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Fairness and Engagement: Where Pay Equity Fits In

Maintaining employee engagement is critical and pay equity matters because it is a key component of the total impression employees form of their workplace based on their lived experiences.


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INFOGRAPHIC | Remote Work and Geographic Pay

Learn more from SullivanCotter’s recent Remote Work and Geographic Pay Pulse Survey, which examines how health care organizations are responding to what has changed with respect to remote work policies, geographic pay differentials, and staffing models.


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Remote Work and Geographic Pay | WEBINAR RECORDING

As some organizations are transitioning back into the office, hospitals and health systems need to rethink which employees can and should work remotely, what these arrangements should look like, and how they should be paid.


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Registered Nurses | Strategies to Recruit and Retain

Looking for better ways to recruit and retain registered nurses in an increasingly competitive marketplace? SullivanCotter presents a number of strategies based on recent workforce trends.


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