About the role
Description & Requirements *This is a 6+ month temporary assignment*
The Senior Director, Physician and APP Compensation and Contracting, leads the system-wide physician and APP compensation and contracting functions, ensuring fair, compliant, and market-informed financial arrangements for employed and contracted providers. This role is responsible for the management and execution of physician and APP compensation plan design, fair market value and commercial reasonableness validation, contract lifecycle management, governance oversight, and market analysis. The Senior Director also works with St. Luke’s Clinic senior leadership in the development of strategies, pay practices, and infrastructure to support the health system’s overall goals. The Senior Director oversees all core processes, including compensation work intake, triage, prioritization, annual plan management, and regulatory compliance. As the primary liaison to legal, compliance, human resources, finance, operational leadership, and external consultants, the Senior Director ensures timely, accurate, and compliant management of all physician and APP financial arrangements. This position also leads a multidisciplinary team and is responsible for talent development, operational excellence, and continuous improvement of the department’s services.
What You Can Expect
- Leads the development, maintenance, and administration of physician and APP compensation models across all specialties, ensuring alignment with fair market value, commercial reasonableness standards, and organizational policies.
- Manages the full lifecycle of physician arrangement contracts, including drafting, renewal, compliance monitoring, and governance approvals in collaboration with legal and operational leadership.
- Oversees the fair market value (FMV) and commercial reasonableness (CR) validation processes for all provider financial arrangements.
- Establishes and manages processes for intake, triage, prioritization, and resolution of physician and APP compensation requests, changes, and escalations.
- Oversees the annual physician and APP compensation plan review, update, and implementation cycle to ensure timely delivery of compensation plan documents, communications, and related materials.
- Ensures consistency of compensation and benefits programs by applying strong governance and leveraging up-to-date market analysis, including the evaluation of provider market trends, benchmarking data, and emerging industry practices to inform compensation plan development and maintain competitiveness.
- Serves as the primary interface with Legal, Compliance, Human Resources, Finance, Operational Leaders, and external consultants on all matters related to provider compensation and contracting.
- Guides the development, preparation, and presentation of cases for governance committees to review and approve physician and APP financial arrangements.
- Directs the timely and accurate administration of physician and APP pay in coordination with Finance, HRIS, and Payroll teams, ensuring the integrity of data and compliance with contractual terms.
- Develops, implements, and maintains policies, procedures, and internal controls to ensure legal, regulatory, and contractual compliance in all aspects of physician and APP financial arrangements.
- Leads, mentors, and manages a high-performing team responsible for physician and APP compensation, contracting, compliance, analytics, and administrative support.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, finance or related field
- 10 years of relevant experience
What's In It For You
At St. Luke’s, caring for people in the communities we serve is our mission – and this includes our own SLHS team. We offer a robust benefits package to support our teams both professionally and personally. In addition to a competitive salary and retirement plans, we ensure our team feels supported in their benefits beyond the typical medical, dental, and vision offerings. We care about you and have fantastic financial and physical wellness options, such as: on-site massages, on-site counseling via our Employee Assistance Program, access to the Personify Health Wellness tool, as well as other formal training and career development offerings to ensure you are meeting your career goals.
St. Luke’s is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by law.
- Please note: this posting is not reflective of all job duties and responsibilities and is intended to provide an overview to job seekers.
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