Anesthesiology Workforce Strategy:
Compensation, Utilization
and Coverage Optimization
Anesthesiology services are at the center of today’s health care workforce challenges.
Ongoing staffing shortages, evolving care delivery models and increasing pressure on compensation are driving health care organizations to take a more strategic approach to how anesthesia providers—including physicians, CRNAs, and CAAs—are compensated, deployed and retained.
Addressing these challenges requires more than monitoring market trends. Leading organizations are aligning coverage models, anesthesiology care team design and anesthesiology compensation with broader goals related to access, financial performance and quality outcomes.
SullivanCotter helps health care organizations develop data-driven anesthesiology workforce strategies backed by one of the industry’s most comprehensive datasets for both physician and advanced practice provider (APP) compensation and productivity. Paired with deep operational and strategic anesthesiology experience, we deliver practical guidance on care team design, coverage and performance. Our national survey data provides robust insights into pay, incentives and productivity—supporting informed decision-making.
Key Areas of Focus
Evaluate and develop system strategy related to anesthesiology services including staffing, sites of care delivery, workforce planning, and financial planning.
Evaluate compensation structures across physicians, CRNAs, and CAAs to ensure competitive positioning and support recruitment and retention.
Design and deploy anesthesiology care models that improve efficiency, expand access and support efficient team-based care.
Assess and structure agreements to align with enterprise and service line strategy to support sustainable coverage, align incentives and improve financial and operational performance.
Leverage national and regional data to understand how your organization compares and identify opportunities for improvement.
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Explore the resources below for the latest insights on anesthesiology compensation, workforce trends and real-world strategies supporting both physicians and CRNAs.
Build a More Competitive Anesthesiology Workforce Strategy
We help health care organizations create sustainable anesthesiology strategies across physicians, CRNA, CAAs that improve access, retention and performance. Let’s start the conversation.
