Lori Schutte, MBA, is president of Cejka Search, a physician, allied health and healthcare executive search firm providing services exclusively to the healthcare industry.
With the advent of healthcare reform and the drive toward clinical integration, roles for physician executives have not only proliferated, they have broadened in scope.
A perfect storm of demographic trends is creating a critical - and growing - gap between the demand for care and the number of doctors available to provide it.
Physician compensation models are notoriously complex and opaque. Yet compensation is the point at which employed physicians feel change most acutely, and change has been widespread.
As the economy improves and the housing market recovery gains force, employees are relocating at higher rates and driving up staff turnover nationwide, according to a recent Marketplace report.
The Dow Jones crossed the 15,000 mark for the first time ever, and the housing market recovery is gaining force as home prices rebound. This is good news, especially for hundreds of thousands of physicians who delayed retirement and relocation plans while their portfolios and home values were in the tank.