Physician Compensation Practice Leader Kim Mobley's article was featured in the 2013 American Health Lawyer Association's Health Care Guide.  "The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act of 1986 (EMTALA) requires most Medicare participating health care organizations to have physicians available to provide services to patients presenting ...

Compensation is usually a taboo conversation in every industry. Interestingly, health care leaders don't mind talking about how they calculate physician salaries, but don't ask them to chat about how they calculate their own. That conversation quickly runs dry.

Though few external benchmark resources are available to help create the guiding metrics, boards continue to try to shift away from rewarding solely on organization-wide financial performance and move toward incentivizing for quality and patient satisfaction. Ultimately, though, fiscal goals still dominate when it comes to incentivizing the C-suite.

Group Practice Journal, the monthly publication of the American Medical Group Association (AMGA), featured an article by SullivanCotter Principal Bradley Vaudrey and Consultant Sara Loos. The article is based on results from the AMGA 2012 Medical Group Compensation and Financial Survey, and notes that medical ...

Hospitals and health systems are increasingly employing physicians in an effort to enhance physician alignment, improve quality, grow market share and increase revenue. This labor market trend has focused attention on physician benefits, which may differ from benefits offered to other employees.

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Establishing criteria for executive pay in the health care sector is difficult enough, but hospital boards continue to face added pressure from government officials and the public demanding increases transparency in the process.

Developed by the Commonwealth Center for Governance Studies, Inc. at the University of Kentucky, this extensive study examines current profile and emerging patterns.

Every once in a while, a new life insurance product or approach enters the market that will revolutionize our thinking. More often, an existing concept is repackaged and promoted as something that will revolutionize our thinking. How can you differentiate between the two?

The Summer 2012 issue of Enrolled Actuaries Report includes an article written by SullivanCotter Principal David Cohn which summarizes topics discussed during Session 702 at the Enrolled Actuaries Meeting.

In the May 1st article entitled "Many Hospitals Anticipate Dropped Revenue Due to ACA," Associate Editor Kelly Brimmer notes the findings from the recently published survey. To read the full article, click here.

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How health systems also are looking at ways to hold onto their existing doctors.

As of late, there has been heightened scrutiny around the salaries and compensation packages of non-profit hospital executives

As more physicians are becoming hospital-employed, will cost reductions and physician alignment come at the expense of physician compensation?

Hospital executive compensation is largely based on comparisons with similar positions in similar organizations.

In the July 13th edition of Becker's Hospital Review, SullivanCotter Principal Kim Mobley explains the necessity and means of hospital board oversight of physician compensation. As more and more physicians align with hospitals due to decreasing reimbursement, increase costs of managing ...

A guest blog post by Warren Kerper, Managing Principal in the Boston office of Sullivan, Cotter and Associates, Inc., appearing on Verrill Dana, LLP's Benefits Law Update.

Most clinicians who provide call coverage for a hospital, whether employed by that hospital or not, have seen increases in pay for providing this service, according to the 2010 Physician On-Call Pay Survey Report, based on the sixth annual survey from compensation consultancy Sullivan Cotter ...

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