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How Norton Healthcare improved provider compensation accuracy and efficiency at scale
Products used:
Physician Enterprise
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The problem

In 2016, Norton Healthcare needed a provider compensation solution that could scale with their fast-growing organization while delivering the level of accuracy required in less time and with less effort. At the time, the organization had just under 1,000 providers, was growing rapidly, and was still managing provider compensation in Excel.

“Excel could not handle it. If we were trying to manage the number of providers we have today in Excel, it simply wouldn't work.”
VP, Operations and Finance
Key challenges
  • Managing provider compensation through Excel as the organization scaled
  • Heavy manual effort to verify data, review calculations, and reduce the risk of compensation errors
  • Limited efficiency in a process that needed to support both day-to-day accuracy and long-term growth
  • The need to strengthen compliance and make contract-related data easier to access and manage
  • Difficulty consolidating complex provider compensation data into a single, usable source of truth
“We have to be able to ensure we can pull everything out, all the sheer minutia of our data. Providers change FTEs all the time, and I can’t count the number of amendments we go through.”
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Why Hallmark

Norton Healthcare was looking for a solution that could reduce risk, improve confidence in provider compensation data, and support growth without requiring more manual effort. They also needed a strategic partner that could tailor the solution to the complexity of their compensation models and data requirements.

The solution

Hallmark implemented the Physician Enterprise solution to aggregate provider compensation data from all systems of record—including contract management, payroll, time and attendance, scheduling, and EMR—and automate compensation evaluation, calculation, and adjudication. By bringing compensation-related data into a single system, Norton Healthcare gained a more efficient, accurate, and reliable way to manage provider compensation as the organization grew. Today, they employ over 1,500 medical providers and approximately 2,000 total physicians.

“It's invaluable because you can go in, and you can run data. I've got total collection at my fingertips. I've got total RVU right there. I can do quick math because I can get to the data so fast.”
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What was delivered
  • Aggregation and consolidation of provider compensation data into one platform
  • Automation of compensation data processing, calculation, evaluation, and adjudication
  • Real-time access to dashboards, reports, and searchable compensation data
  • Centralized contract tracking and renewal management
  • Stronger compliance oversight
  • Better visibility for modeling, projecting, and analyzing future compensation scenarios
  • A tailored implementation shaped around Norton Healthcare’s specific compensation models and reporting needs
“If we had a 30-, 60-, or 90-day renewal window, we needed to notify the providers that many days in advance. All of those are contract items that we need to ensure we manage, and with Hallmark, it’s much easier to pull out those data elements.”

Outcomes

With Hallmark, Norton Healthcare improved confidence in provider compensation data, reduced manual labor, and built a more scalable compensation management approach.

Accuracy

Data accuracy improved, giving the team greater confidence in the information they were using for payroll.

Time savings

Significant manual work was eliminated. Compliance and contract management became faster and easier.

Increased visibility

Leadership discussions and month-end reviews became more efficient because data, dashboards, and reports were available immediately.

Unification of data

Hallmark’s technology collected all data related to provider compensation in a single system, making everything searchable, filterable, and available when needed.
“Not having to spend so much time has probably been the most significant pick up. Three people spending three days each month reviewing data went away with Hallmark.”

Building a stronger foundation for what comes next

By consolidating provider compensation data, automating manual processes, and making information easier to access and act on, Norton Healthcare moved from a labor-intensive spreadsheet process toward a more coordinated and scalable compensation strategy.

The result was not only better accuracy and efficiency, but a stronger foundation for future modeling, operational agility, and physician compensation management as the organization continues to grow and complexity continues to increase.

“It truly was my best vendor experience and relationship.”
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