Forbes | The Labor Crisis is Derailing Health Care Transformation
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.
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.
PRESS RELEASE | SullivanCotter Expands Advanced Practice Provider Services Team
With the appointment of Zachary Hartsell as the firm's APP Market Leader and the addition of new consulting talent Lacey Buckler and Hadley Powless, SullivanCotter continues to build out a team of highly specialized experts and industry leaders in APP workforce compensation, utilization, care delivery and workforce planning.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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?
Hiring Gains Alone Won’t Solve the Health Care Workforce Crisis
Health care is in the midst of an ongoing workforce crisis as the demand for care is outpacing the supply of labor. To help fortify the nation's health care system by building a sustainable pipeline of future talent, Ted Chien, SullivanCotter's President and CEO, discusses how hospitals and health systems can meet this challenge through smarter technology, resilient teams, and excellence in leadership.
Advanced Practice Providers: Highest Paid Specialties and Regions
Utilizing data from SullivanCotter's 2022 Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Productivity Survey, Becker's Hospital Review has listed the top 20 highest-paid specialties for both nurse practitioners and physician assistants. It also shares median total cash compensation by region.
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
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.
PRESS RELEASE | Health Care Executive Compensation
SullivanCotter's 2022 Health Care Management and Executive Compensation Survey Report highlights impact of the competitive talent market and pandemic recovery on executive compensation
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.
PODCAST | Shared Services Performed by Physicians and APPs
Due to recent changes to the Physician Fee Schedule regarding modifications to billing for split/shared visits, many physicians and advanced practice providers are facing significant workflow changes.
PRESS RELEASE | Enhancing PPMT™ User Experience for Physicians and APPs
SullivanCotter enhances PPMT™ portal to improve ease of access, engagement and usability for physicians and advanced practice providers
PRESS RELEASE | Enhanced Benchmarking Capabilities Added to SullivanCotter’s Provider Performance Management Technology™
PPMT’s fall product release includes new configurability options for its already powerful benchmarking capabilities, including the ability to select months for productivity benchmarks and identify and benchmark physicians who specialize in multiple service areas.
PRESS RELEASE | Reid Health Selects SullivanCotter’s Provider Performance Management Technology™
SullivanCotter, the nation’s leading independent consulting firm in the assessment and development of total rewards programs, workforce solutions, and technology and data products for the health care industry and not-for-profit sector, has partnered with Reid Health to implement its comprehensive Provider Performance Management Technology™ (PPMT™).