PPMT™ enables organizations to automate the assignment of patients to clinician panels through sophisticated client-defined rules. It then calculates a risk-adjusted panel size and applies compensation calculations for a group or individual based on an organization’s requirements

By leveraging PPMT™, an industry-first, cloud-based product that enables physician and APP engagement through transparent performance-based compensation administration and analytical capabilities, the organization is looking to automate and align the management of clinician pay and performance across its medical group.

Care delivery optimization between health systems and their affiliated hospitals, integrated practices, and physician and advanced practice provider (APP) workforces can promote financial sustainability by identifying gaps in care delivery, improving operational efficiency, reducing clinical variation, and expanding capacity for important growth initiatives.

Zach Hartsell shares insights and discusses results from SullivanCotter's COVID-19 survey series on physician and APP compensation.

Dave Hesselink discusses results from SullivanCotter's 2019 Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey with Besler on The Hospital Finance Podcast®

Read a summary of results from SullivanCotter's 2019 Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey, which includes data on base salary, total cash compensation and clinical productivity such as collections, wRVUs and more.

As health care organizations today are faced with a number of competing forces, physician compensation programs continue to change in a rapidly evolving marketplace. View related highlights from SullivanCotter’s 2019 Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey, featuring data from nearly 700 hospitals and health systems.

Managing provider performance and compensation has grown increasingly complex, and many organizations lack the proper tools and technology to support this process. To help uncover opportunities for improvement, we facilitated a series of focus groups with hospitals, health systems and medical groups ranging in size from 500 - 2,000 providers.

Developed in cooperation with Mayo Clinic, Provider Performance Management Technology™ is an industry-first, cloud-based solution that enables provider engagement and alignment through transparent performance-based compensation administration and analytical capabilities.

SullivanCotter helps to analyze how the inconsistent application of peer groups between CMS’s new star ratings and the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program are creating sizable discrepancies in reported performance.

View highlights from SullivanCotter's 2018 Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey, featuring data from nearly 750 organizations covers more than 167,000 individual physicians and advanced practice providers.

SullivanCotter experts Dr. Mark Rumans, Chief Medical Officer, and Courtney Dutton, Principal, recently answered questions on physician compensation design and implementation - helping to uncover emerging trends and address some of the challenges health care organizations are facing today.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published its newest Star Ratings, designed to measure and report hospital quality. These ratings have provoked a number of questions and concerns as more than 3,600 hospitals - regardless of size, breadth of services, or geographic location - are benchmarked against a collective average.

Using national benchmarks like the CMS Star Ratings can be a great way for specialty hospitals to help drive quality improvement, but only if they understand the nuances and complexities in the data and how to best analyze it.