The current PayScale “Develop a Market-Based Pay Structure” marketing publication is deceptive, inaccurate, and, given the apparent quality of their data, could set you up for a [...]
Pay isn’t always the answer to every problem, but understanding the pay pressures on the most vulnerable of our employees is essential for every health center. Front-line employees in the [...]
The actual productivity of FQHC family practice physicians averages about 14% less than what is planned for on a daily basis, and about 11% below expectations on an annual basis. While [...]
On International Women’s Day, we thought it appropriate to begin the release of information from Merces’ FQHC Provider Productivity and Compensation Survey, the only study of its [...]
Many health centers are only now developing the type of compensation programs they need to support their ever more complex organizations. However, they are learning to do so at a particularly [...]
Before I returned to Merces Consulting, I spent many years working on my own and raising my family. During that time I managed to keep busy doing independent consulting, the majority of which [...]
The concern over gender pay differentials in society today is significant. Like many other issues, it has become politicized and polarized, with more people seemingly wanting to shout the other [...]
The impending New Year brings the opportunity to start anew, always with the assumption that we are moving on to bigger and better things. Resolutions have to be made on an existing solid [...]
Provider compensation will continue to be high on the list of “to dos” for FQHC senior managers in 2015. There is no indication that the shortage of interested providers will be [...]
Certainly there are differences of opinion among human resources professionals about what is “essential” in a pay program, and certainly trends come and go, but common sense and [...]
