AAPCP Foundations of Provider Compensation & Workforce Strategy
Essential Knowledge for Better Provider Compensation and Workforce Decisions
Nashville TN - April 26-27, 2027
AAPCP Foundations of Provider Compensation & Workforce Strategy is an educational program covering the essential principles, data, compliance considerations, and operational practices that support effective provider compensation and workforce strategy. Sessions provide practical knowledge that professionals and leaders can apply within their organizations.
What You Will Learn
Over two days in-person in Nashville, you will learn the following from leading national experts:
- Core compensation concepts, terminology, and stakeholders
- Common physician and APP compensation models
- Market benchmarks, survey data, fair market value, and CR
- Productivity, wRVUs, access, panels, quality, and coverage measures
- The connection between compensation, workforce strategy, and clinical operations
- Recruitment, retention, specialty shortages, and APP workforce planning
- Contracting, approvals, governance, documentation, and compliance
- Practical approaches to designing and administering effective compensation programs
Location, Hotel, and Pricing
AAPCP Foundations will be held at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Nashville Downtown, just two blocks from Broadway. Registration includes breakfast, lunch, snacks, and an evening reception.
Pricing
- With National Conference: $350 / $450 / $550
- Foundations only: $500 / $600 / $700
Rates increase on November 1, 2026 and January 16, 2027. AAPCP hotel block details will be available soon.
Topics and Sessions
Provider Compensation Fundamentals: Concepts, Terminology, and Stakeholders
Build a working foundation in the language, components, and organizational structure of provider compensation. This session introduces common forms of physician and APP compensation, employment and independent contractor arrangements, and the key stakeholders involved in developing, approving, administering, and overseeing provider compensation programs.
Understanding Physician and APP Compensation Models
Explore the most common compensation models used for physicians and advanced practice providers, including salary, productivity, shift-based, hourly, panel-based, quality, team-based, and administrative arrangements. The session will explain how specialty, practice setting, operational needs, and organizational objectives influence model selection and design.
Market Data, Benchmarks, and Fair Market Value Fundamentals
Learn how compensation and productivity survey data can inform provider compensation decisions—and how it can be misunderstood or misapplied. This session examines common benchmarks, percentile interpretation, specialty and geographic considerations, survey limitations, and the foundational principles of fair market value, commercial reasonableness, and documentation.
Measuring Provider Performance: Productivity, Access, Panels, Quality, and Coverage
Understand the measures commonly used to evaluate provider performance and support compensation and workforce planning. This session will cover wRVUs, collections, patient panels, access, quality, patient experience, call and coverage expectations, shift requirements, APP utilization, and the importance of interpreting metrics within the appropriate operational context.
Connecting Provider Compensation to Workforce and Operational Strategy
Provider compensation does not operate independently from workforce design and clinical operations. This session explores how compensation connects to recruitment, retention, access, coverage, specialty shortages, APP utilization, team-based care, service-line growth, rural market challenges, and financial sustainability—and why compensation alone cannot resolve every operational issue.
Provider Compensation Governance, Contracting, and Compliance Fundamentals
Examine the organizational processes required to move a provider compensation arrangement from concept through implementation and ongoing administration. This session covers offer development, approvals, contracting, fair market value review, exceptions, governance structures, documentation, payroll implementation, annual reviews, and common process failures that create financial, operational, and compliance risk.
Attending Organizations
Build your knowledge. Strengthen your strategy. Make better workforce decisions.
Designed for both professionals who are new to provider compensation and experienced leaders seeking a stronger understanding of this increasingly complex field, the Provider Workforce Data Summit brings together perspectives from compensation, contracting, workforce strategy, recruitment, finance, analytics, operations, legal, compliance, fair market value, and medical group or service-line leadership. Attendees will gain practical insights to better understand provider compensation, evaluate workforce and market pressures, and support more informed organizational decisions.
