FQHC Posts

At Merces, we are advocates of “best practice” compensation programs, and I have written extensively here on the methods and techniques that we feel are essential to proper [...]

Okay, I’ve had it.  Normally, while known for being opinionated about my profession, and having climbed up on several metaphorical soap boxes in my time, I can take a lot.  Today, not so [...]

Not too long ago I had the opportunity to spend several days with a health center working through a job evaluation exercise.  What makes this client somewhat unique is that the CEO has a human [...]

Now that the holidays have passed, and with the Super Bowl a couple weeks away, it is time to think about what your health center will want to accomplish in the area of employee compensation in [...]

There are some people running around talking up productivity incentives for providers — in fact, they are telling you that you “have” to have them in order to attract and retain [...]

There are competing problems in compensation management to deal with, competing mostly to be the factor that creates the most bad decisions — a misguided direction toward over-reliance on [...]

A lot of “compensation tips” arrive in my inbox, from a lot of well-meaning folks, some of whom you probably consider to be “experts.”  One of today’s includes a tip [...]

I’m frequently asked “what should we communicate about our compensation plan?” and I always start with the premise that “if you don’t communicate it, it [...]

I shouldn’t be giving this away for free, but I hope that readers see the simplicity of this, and stop wasting time, effort and money on this topic, and move on to more complex things that [...]

We hear all the time about the struggles that not-for-profit health centers have in recruiting providers, and time and time again, it seems that the primary cause is alleged to be compensation. [...]