Midwest Rural Hospital Compensation Survey

Rural hospitals typically must pay high prices to recruit and retain providers. Compounding this issue is the scarcity of provider compensation market data in the rural setting. This gap can lead to lower recruitment yields, retention issues and inaccuracies in fair market value/commercial reasonability analysis.

The Faegre Drinker Midwest Rural Hospital Compensation Survey helps to bridge this gap. By participating in our survey, you can help us gather the data needed to create fact-based strategies that address provider recruitment and retention issues in the rural setting. 

Participants in the survey will receive the results for free.

The survey requests data on the topics below. (Please provide as much information as you can but note that we need at least some physician level compensation data to accept the submission.): 

• Hospital demographics
• Provider retention data, including turnover percentage and days to fill
• Provider benefits data, including FTEs for full-time benefits, retirement match, CME and PTO days
• Physician compensation, including salary vs. incentive compensation, administrative and medical directorship pay, and call coverage pay
• Compensation for advanced practice providers, including nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certified nurse anesthetists
• Provider productivity as measured by visits, work relative value units, collections and clinical hours
• C-Suite Executive Compensation and Benefits

To participate, simply download the survey template by clicking on the button below, follow the instructions within the survey template, and email your completed response to Aaron Dobosenski at aaron.dobosenski@faegredrinker.com. (If you require a secured file-sharing site for submitting your data, please contact Aaron.) Deadline for submissions is March 31, 2025.