Provider Compensation in a Highly Effective FQHC — Part of a Series

I’ve spent more time dealing with provider compensation in the last three years than I did in my first seventeen years working with FQHCs.  There is much more interest now in provider [...]

As every one of my clients has heard at one time or another, I plan on writing a book some day, and it’s going to have a chapter entitled “management spends 95% of its time on the 5% [...]

Last week I attended the NACHC Farmworker Conference in Denver, met with clients and colleagues and listened to a number of speakers.  Most of the speakers addressed the external challenges [...]

This is a cautionary tale, as well as an informative one.  I was asked to take a look at the compensation program of a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), and read the report of the [...]

I’m not nearly as big of a fan of fruit as I should be, but it is my tendency to always want to compare apples to apples (which is my favorite fruit, by the way).  That makes me very leery [...]

One of the most widely held beliefs in the FQHC community is that provider compensation, particularly physician compensation, lags the general market, making it extremely difficult to attract and [...]

In this series of posts, I’ll identify practices in organizations that may be a waste of precious employee compensation resources.  Today I’ll cover a policy I ran into recently while [...]

Performance appraisal may well be the most despised management process around, and often for very good reasons.  Most performance appraisal forms are only marginally relevant to an employee’s [...]

Performance appraisal may well be the most despised management process around, and often for very good reasons.  Most performance appraisal forms are only marginally relevant to an employee’s [...]

Increasing the minimum wage doesn’t improve the skills and contributions of those who currently earn the minimum wage – but increasing an organization’s minimum wage may be essential to achieving [...]