As a healthcare industry thought leader, ECG prides itself on leading-edge identification and interpretation of industry trends. A key factor in recognizing and addressing these trends is often the ability to access definitive, hard-to-measure data and statistics. To that end, ECG frequently conducts customized surveys that provide our clients with access to data that is either more in depth than or not available from other industry sources.

While some surveys are unique to a particular topic in a given year, other surveys are conducted by ECG on an annual basis, including national and regional compensation, production, and benefits surveys.

ECG has conducted additional surveys driven by industry demand:

• Capitation and Risk Contracting Survey, year 2008 based on 2007 data.
• 2006 Pay-for-Performance Survey.
• Health System Governance Structure and Practices Survey, year 2006 based on 2005 data.

With our unique knowledge of the critical data that drives healthcare business decisions, coupled with a healthy skepticism of many reported data sources, we are frequently asked by our clients to perform custom surveys to facilitate the analysis of their key issues. Examples include:

• Fee schedule surveys for physician groups and ambulatory care providers.
• Surveys of operational and productivity indicators.
• Statewide surveys of contractual and compensation arrangements between hospitals and hospital-based physicians (e.g., anesthesiology, emergency medicine, pathology, radiology).