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3 Reasons It’s Time for Your Physician Compensation Review!

MGMA released the 2024 Provider Compensation and Productivity Report in May, and it reflects the trends we’ve seen with our physician clients at SCC: physician compensation continues to increase, wRVU productivity is up across all specialties, and most physician compensation isn’t keeping up with inflation. Demand for physicians remains high while the physician shortage continues to grow, a classic case...

June 13, 2024

SBCRS WEBINAR

It was an honor to present a webinar to the Society of Black Colon & Rectal Surgeons about the importance of understanding and leveraging your value as a surgical specialist to navigate the business of medicine. Watch here. If you’re ready to take the next step, Surgical Compensation & Consulting (SCC) is here to help you YOU DESERVE TO KNOW WHETHER...

June 11, 2024

Why U.S. Healthcare Isn’t Better At Getting Better

– SACHIN H. JAIN, CONTRIBUTOR, FORBES HEALTHCARE 5 Dominant Hypotheses in Public Discourse About Why Healthcare Hasn’t Gotten Better: With forces as big as these at play, our minds usually go to advocating for, hoping for, wishing for some bigger, fundamental reform or disruptive event. For every solution—if ever it comes—comes with its own incompleteness, unintended consequences, costs, and added...

November 17, 2023

3 Tips for Finding Your Negotiation Voice

Recently, I read an NYT Opinion Article by Adam Grant titled ‘Women Know Exactly What They’re Doing When They Use ‘Weak Language.’ The article about the “voice” and “language” women – and men – use to navigate their careers and advocate for themselves stuck with me because I’ve experienced much of this in my career. In my 50s, I’m still...

August 18, 2023

As Healthcare Organizations Get Bigger, Healthcare Workers Feel Smaller

As healthcare organizations consolidate and get bigger, many healthcare workers are left feeling invisible and unseen. – Sachin H. Jain, Contributor, Forbes Healthcare While workload is often blamed for “burnout,” people didn’t become healthcare professionals by not working hard. Rather, it is the nature of the work and how they are treated by healthcare organizations. Dive deep and you’ll see...

June 9, 2023

2023 Doximity Physician Compensation Report

U.S. healthcare workers face a number of pressures in their jobs today, including economic strains, a growing physician shortage, and high rates of work-related burnout.  These challenges drive many medical professionals to reassess their careers, explore opportunities for greater autonomy and work-life balance, and in certain cases, even consider new career pursuits outside of medicine altogether. Doximity’s report shows that...

May 19, 2023

Women’s Health Research Lacks Funding

Conditions that affect women more than men garner less funding. But boosting investment could reap big rewards. In this study of more than 20,000 clinical trials in the United States between 2000 and 2020, women were under-represented in some trial types and over-represented in others. The 2021 analysis “demonstrates that the funding of research for women is not aligned with...

May 12, 2023

How to Tell If a Potential Employer Has a Burnout Culture

by Emily Stark, Becca Carnahan, and Jacqueline Kerr Summary How can you identify whether a potential employer has a burnout culture? Will the company support your well-being and productivity? Or will they leave you exhausted and looking for a new job again? The authors offer signals to look for, questions to ask, and ways to evaluate answers during your interview...

May 8, 2023

When You’re Clear, You Can Choose What You Want to Negotiate

RESOURCE CREATED BY: HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL This article was written by Hannah Riley Bowles, Linda Babcock, and Kathleen McGinn, and was originally published by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in March 2005. Gender gaps are more likely to emerge in negotiations when there is a lack of clarity about compensation or price standards. Introduction Women have been shown...

April 14, 2023

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