Simplifying physician incentive pay: A Workday solution for a complex challenge

  • Blog
  • September 11, 2025

Dipak Pandya

Principal, Workday Healthcare Transformation, PwC US

Chris Cameron

Managing Director, Workday Transformation, PwC US

PwC’s Workday-enabled Physician Incentive Compensation Hub is now live on the Workday Marketplace.

The tool helps healthcare organizations simplify incentive plan administration and enhance visibility and controls.

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Physician compensation has always been complex — shaped by productivity measures, incentive plans, specialties and evolving care models. Physicians are among the most critical stakeholders in any healthcare organization, and administrators want to provide a smoother experience that can help increase precision, automation and insights.

But too often, that goal is undermined by fragmented systems, disconnected data sources and labor-intensive processes. The result? Manual workarounds, limited analytics and slow responses to changes — all of which can leave physicians frustrated and administrators stuck in reactive mode.

It’s time to ask a bigger question: How can we make physician compensation simpler, smarter and scalable?

Our answer: A unified Workday-enabled solution

PwC’s Physician Incentive Compensation Hub is built on Workday — meaning it runs natively inside the Workday platform, so it feels familiar, integrates smoothly and helps information remain secure. It leverages Workday Extend, Prism Analytics, and Worksheets to automate, streamline and modernize the physician’s compensation lifecycle.

From plan design and calculation to approval, reconciliation and reporting, this end-to-end approach transforms compensation into a simplified, scalable process — benefiting both HR/finance teams and the providers they serve.

The problem: Disconnected processes, rising risk and physician frustration

Many health systems manage physician’s pay on a patchwork of spreadsheets, adhoc databases and partially integrated systems. Manual handoffs between multiple teams including recruiting, HR, payroll, finance and operations can slow work and introduce errors. Small changes — onboarding, bonus tweaks, role or Full Time Equivalent (FTE) moves — can also cause confusion downstream, creating discrepancies with offer letters and employment agreements. Faculty staff transactions often add complexity. This isn’t just an operational problem. It’s an experience and insights challenge.

The solution: End-to-end automation and visibility — all within Workday

PwC’s Workday-enabled Physician Incentive Compensation Hub is designed specifically for physician pay and total rewards. It leverages native Workday functionality and integrates with HCM, Payroll and Prism — providing transactional control, detailed change history, automated workflows and actionable data insights.

Key capabilities include:

  • Flexible plan configuration — Compensation structures by specialty, seniority, service line or performance metrics
  • Integrated data management — Streamline the intake of external data such as work Relative Value Units (RVUs) and productivity data
  • Automated calculations — Calculations engine to precisely calculate pay based on predefined incentive rules
  • Workflow-driven approvals — Standardized business processes to streamline validation
  • Transparent statements — Real-time dashboards and personalized pay statements to providers
  • Predictive insights — Model plan outcomes and spot trends using Workday’s dashboards and analytics; removes the need for bolt-on tools or manual reconciliation steps

Why it matters: Effectiveness, clarity, better outcomes

PwC’s physician compensation solution can help organizations:

  • Reduce the risk of errors and complexity by preventing manual calculations, redundant platforms and reconciliation errors
  • Boost productivity by freeing teams from spreadsheet-driven processes and reducing back-and-forth communication
  • Improve clarity by giving physicians real-time access to clear, consistent pay statements
  • Accelerate agility by enabling rapid model changes — so you can adapt to new care models, regulations, or value-based arrangements
  • Drive adoption by creating a simpler, mobile-enabled experience across HR, finance and clinical leaders

In short: We've helped hardwire clarity, productivity and control into a process that’s long been a black box, so you can focus on growing your teams, scaling your care models and building provider confidence — not chasing data or correcting payroll errors.

Ready to simplify physician pay?

PwC’s physician compensation solution is more than a solution — it’s a strategic step forward. Backed by deep industry knowledge, thorough Workday implementation experience and automation-first thinking, it’s designed to help healthcare organizations keep up with what’s next.

See our solution in action.

Visit the Workday Marketplace.

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Chris Cameron

Chris Cameron

Managing Director, Workday Transformation, PwC US

Dipak Pandya

Principal, Workday Healthcare Transformation, PwC US

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