Highest paid not-for-profit health system executives and board members, 2017

Compensation does not include payments for previously reported deferred pay
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Name 2017 earned
compensation
% change
from 2016
As % of
total payroll
1) Bernard Tyson
Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals
$16,082,753 73.8% 0.10%
2) J. Knox Singleton
President, Inova Health Care
$14,176,752 146.9% 0.86%
3) Anthony Tersigni
President and CEO, Ascension
$13,627,686 -2.2% 0.15%
4) Dr. Rod Hochman
President and CEO, Providence St. Joseph Health
$10,533,384 156.6% 0.09%
5) Lloyd Dean
President and CEO, Dignity Health
$9,569,824 24.3% 0.07%
6) Peter Fine
President and CEO, Banner Health
$8,542,030 6.9% 0.22%
7) Robert Henkel
Executive vice president, Ascension
$8,125,113 -2.0% 0.09%
8) James Skogsbergh
President and CEO, Advocate Health Care
$7,805,356 14.5% 0.25%
9) Dr. Robert Grossman
Dean and CEO, NYU Langone
$7,758,904 16.1% 0.45%
10) Kenneth Samet
President and CEO, MedStar Health
$7,751,857 56.9% 0.26%
11) Dr. Delos Cosgrove
President and CEO, Cleveland Clinic
$7,628,936 23.6% 0.17%
12) Dr. Kenneth Davis
CEO, Mount Sinai Health System
$7,270,414 0.1% 0.61%
13) Dr. Steven Corwin
President and CEO, New York-Presbyterian
$7,048,147 23.4% 0.15%
14) Dr. David Samadi
Chairman, Lenox Hill Hospital
$6,851,549 -6.7% 0.90%
15) Philip Incarnati
President and CEO, McLaren Health Care Corp.
$6,664,951 0.8% 0.59%
16) Gregory Adams
Executive vice president and group president, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals
$6,589,138 109.5% 0.04%
17) Dr. Joseph Levine
Chief of electrophysiology, St. Francis Hospital
$6,465,741 2.9% 1.68%
18) J. Lindsey Bradley Jr.
Retired as a regional CEO, Christus Health
$6,141,067 181.4% 0.27%
19) Kevin Lofton
CEO, Catholic Health Initiatives
$6,139,336 19.3% 0.08%
20) Jeffrey Romoff
President and CEO, UPMC
$5,739,001 -13.0% 0.10%
21) John Fox
President and CEO, Beaumont Health
$5,674,842 81.9% 0.22%
22) John Starcher Jr.
President and CEO, Mercy Health
$5,580,929 222.7% 0.23%
23) Dr. Steven Safyer
President and CEO, Montefiore Medical Center
$5,461,099 24.7% 0.17%
24) Harvey Granger
Senior vice president and general counsel, Baptist Health
$5,338,214 617.1% 0.39%
25) Dr. Craig Thompson
President and CEO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
$5,303,958 -20.8% 0.23%

Notes

2017 earned compensation was calculated from salary information in Schedule J of Form 990, summing total and related compensation and subtracting from it any compensation reported as deferred on prior Form 990s.