Organizational Membership | Unlimited Access for Provider Compensation Teams
The discipline of provider compensation & workforce strategy
Why Join the AAPCP?
For decades, professional associations have existed for attorneys, accountants, financial leaders, and healthcare executives. But the profession that manages provider compensation and workforce strategy has only recently emerged, driven by the integration of medical groups, health systems, and private practices and the resulting need for internal expertise focused on financial alignment and workforce strategy. The individuals who hold these roles have never had a professional home—despite sitting at the crossroads between employers, clinicians, and organizational sustainability. The AAPCP fills this gap by building a dedicated community where members collaborate, learn, and define the standards that will guide the workforce of the future.
Our Members Manage Healthcare Workforce Strategy With the Following Skills:
Governance, Culture & Change Leadership
Ensuring compensation frameworks are well-understood, trusted, and aligned with broader organizational objectives. This includes compensation committee governance, communication strategies, cultural alignment, conflict resolution, leadership development, and change management.
Valuation & Fair-Market Compensation Alignment
Ensuring compensation arrangements are compliant, market-based, and financially sustainable. This includes valuation methodologies, wRVU modeling, productivity analysis, benchmarking interpretation, and compensation plan design that reflects clinical and organizational realities.
Workforce Strategy & Optimization
Aligning people, roles, and care delivery models to meet organizational goals and patient demand. This includes physician and APP workforce planning, staffing models, recruitment strategies, panel management, access optimization, and APP-MD care integration.
Financial Planning & Sustainability Modeling
Integrating compensation with organizational finances to support growth and long-term viability. This includes pro forma development, compensation scenario testing, financial forecasting, budgeting, dashboarding, and evaluating the downstream impact of compensation models.
Data Analytics & Performance Insights
Transforming data into actionable decisions across the compensation lifecycle. This includes survey design, benchmarking interpretation, productivity metrics, compensation-to-collections analysis, dashboarding, and predictive modeling to anticipate workforce challenges.
Regulatory & Contract Compliance
Managing the complex intersection of laws and organizational policies that shape provider compensation. This includes Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, tax-exempt considerations, contract drafting, audit processes, and ongoing monitoring to prevent compliance drift.
Who Membership is For
AAPCP membership is intended for professionals who actively work in the provider compensation and workforce strategy discipline. Eligible members are individuals employed by healthcare organizations or professional services firms whose roles include direct responsibility for the design, administration, analysis, valuation, governance, or regulatory compliance of physician and advanced practice provider compensation arrangements.
This includes professionals working in or for health systems, hospitals, and academic medical centers; medical groups and physician organizations; insurance companies and payors; and professional services firms such as consulting, valuation, legal, and accounting organizations, as well as other entities that employ individuals who provide professional services in provider compensation and workforce strategy.
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Membership is reserved for practitioners working in provider compensation and workforce strategy and is not intended for individuals seeking to understand their own compensation, students or trainees, or those with a general or academic interest. While these audiences may participate in select educational offerings, AAPCP membership is limited to professionals with responsibility for compensation strategy, oversight, and organizational decision-making.
Membership Benefits
Unlimited Members
Organizational membership allows unlimited designated participants from your organization, enabling broad, team-based access across finance, legal, operations, analytics, and leadership roles.
Unlimited Events
Members receive unlimited virtual access to AAPCP webinars, briefings, and virtual conferences throughout the year at no additional cost.
Annual Live Conference
Each organizational membership includes one complimentary registration to the annual National Provider Compensation and Workforce Strategy Conference.
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Original Research
Members receive access to AAPCP’s annual research reports and surveys focused on provider compensation and workforce strategy trends, practices, and market dynamics.
Member Newsletter
Members receive a dedicated newsletter featuring timely insights, regulatory developments, research highlights, and upcoming programming relevant to the profession.
Peer Forum
Members have access to a practitioner-only message board for confidential, peer-to-peer discussion, problem-solving, and experience sharing.
Policy Library
Members can access a curated library of policies, templates, and reference materials related to provider compensation governance, administration, and compliance.
Research Guides
Members receive practical guides that translate research, data, and regulatory concepts into actionable tools and frameworks for day-to-day application.
Professional Development
AAPCP membership provides high-quality education and training that supports ongoing professional development for individuals and teams working in provider compensation and workforce strategy.
Trapped in Compensation and Workforce Challenges That Drain Your Team?
These Could Be Undermining Your Compensation Strategy...
- Relying on generic or legacy models that may not align with value-based care, leading to inequities and inefficiencies.
- Operating without dedicated tools or benchmarks tailored to provider compensation, leading to fragmented decision-making.
- Relying on self-directed learning without structured programs specific to provider compensation expertise.
- Depending on broad market data that may not reflect provider compensation staffing needs, leading to understaffed teams.
- Relying solely on national data that often lacks depth in provider compensation and workforce strategy specifics.
Imagine If This Was Your New Normal...
- Gaining insights from peers on modern compensation structures, like hybrid RVU and quality-based designs.
- Enjoying organizational access to shared templates, guides, and benchmarks curated by the AAPCP community.
- Accessing on-demand webinars and certification pathways to build specialized skills in valuation and compliance.
- Drawing from member-contributed knowledge bases to better align provider compensation department staffing.
- Benefiting from exclusive research and reports developed through collaborative member input for targeted insights.
Frequently Asked Questions
AAPCP membership is designed for organizations and professionals actively working in provider compensation, workforce strategy, and compliance. This includes health systems, hospitals, medical groups, as well as consulting firms and law firms that support organizations in this space. Our membership structure intentionally reflects the multidisciplinary nature of provider compensation work.
Yes. AAPCP offers organizational membership options for consulting firms and law firms whose work aligns with provider compensation, valuation, contracting, workforce strategy, and regulatory compliance. These memberships allow firms to engage with health system leaders, contribute to industry dialogue, and participate in Association initiatives in a manner consistent with AAPCP’s nonprofit mission.
AAPCP offers individual memberships on a trial basis for new members. This allows individuals to experience the value of the Association and its resources. Over time, and as organizations deepen their engagement, members are transitioned to organizational membership, which is the Association’s long-term membership model and reflects how provider compensation work is typically performed within organizations.
For individuals new to the Association, individual membership pricing is generally consistent with other professional associations.
AAPCP’s organizational membership fees are intentionally structured to be significantly lower than many national association organizational models, while still providing broad access and value across an organization. Because pricing varies based on organizational characteristics, we encourage interested parties to contact AAPCP directly for specific pricing and options.
Provider compensation, workforce strategy, and compliance are organizational responsibilities, not isolated individual functions. AAPCP’s organizational membership model is designed to:
Promote consistency and defensibility across teams
Enable shared access to resources, education, and research
Support cross-functional collaboration among legal, finance, HR, and operational leaders
This structure aligns the Association with how work is actually performed in health systems and professional service firms.
AAPCP membership provides organizations with:
Access to specialized education, research, and industry insights
A national forum for peer collaboration and benchmarking
Resources that support compliance, governance, and defensibility in provider compensation
Engagement with a community focused specifically on provider compensation and workforce strategy, rather than general healthcare administration
The Association is designed to complement, not replace, internal expertise or external advisors—helping organizations operate more effectively and confidently in a highly regulated environment.