Hospitals and health systems are facing unprecedented pressure to sustain essential hospital-based services such as anesthesia, emergency medicine, trauma, and hospitalist coverage. Stipends (once treated as temporary subsidies) are now central to maintaining access and ensuring continuity of care. Yet, rising costs, physician shortages, and heightened regulatory scrutiny have pushed organizations to rethink how stipends are structured, governed, and defended. This session explores the evolution of hospital-based stipends, the market dynamics driving their growth, and practical strategies to design, negotiate, and monitor stipend arrangements that balance financial sustainability, compliance, and physician alignment. Participants will also learn how technology like MD Ranger and RangerFMV can support defensible, data-driven decisions and help organizations stay ahead of regulatory expectations.

In this webinar, ECG’s Allison Pullins, John Fink, and Kathryn Taylor will equip you to:

• Explain Market Drivers – Identify the financial, workforce, and regulatory pressures that are fueling the growth of hospital-based stipends.
• Differentiate Stipend Roles – Describe how stipends have evolved from gap-fillers to strategic levers for access, quality, and sustainability.
• Apply Best Practices – Evaluate models for structuring and aligning stipends with workload, call burden, quality, and FMV/CR guardrails.
• Develop Action Steps – Formulate strategies for re-evaluating current stipend arrangements and ensuring defensibility in a complex market environment, leveraging solutions like RangerFMV for documentation and compliance.