Only five of the not-for-profit health systems among the largest by revenue* had female CEOs in 2018, according to the health systems’ Form 990s. Female CEOs made 67 cents for every dollar their male peers made.
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| CEO/system | Gender | 2018 compensation1 | % as other2 | % as bonus3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bernard Tyson** Kaiser Foundation Hospitals |
Male | $15,773,230 | 8.3% | 70.3% |
| Dr. Robert Grossman NYU Langone Hospitals |
Male | $10,260,240 | 0.8% | 44.9% |
| Anthony Tersigni Ascension Health |
Male | $13,249,761 | 8.6% | 78.8% |
| Lloyd Dean, CEO Dignity Health (now part of CommonSpirit Health) |
Male | $10,924,749 | 18.9% | 56.7% |
| Dr. Rod Hochman Providence St. Joseph Health |
Male | $9,705,269 | 10.8% | 31.1% |
| James Skogsbergh, co-CEO Advocate Aurora Health |
Male | $8,511,609 | 20.2% | 58.6% |
| Jeffrey Romoff UPMC |
Male | $8,162,637 | 23.8% | 41.7% |
| Peter Fine Banner Health |
Male | $7,892,796 | 2.8% | 43.4% |
| Dr. Nick Turkal, co-CEO Advocate Aurora Health |
Male | $7,408,247 | 16.3% | 54.0% |
| Philip Incarnati McLaren Health Care Corp. |
Male | $6,929,688 | 52.6% | 20.4% |
| Kevin Lofton Catholic Health Initiatives (now part of CommonSpirit Health) |
Male | $6,773,278 | 12.7% | 61.9% |
| Dean Harrison Northwestern Memorial Healthcare |
Male | $6,630,030 | 33.4% | 33.3% |
| Kenneth Samet MedStar Health |
Male | $6,621,128 | 5.6% | 65.6% |
| Ernie Sadau Christus Health |
Male | $6,229,549 | 0.9% | 39.9% |
| Dr. David Torchiana Partners HealthCare (now Mass General Brigham) |
Male | $6,128,085 | 37.4% | 24.5% |
| Robert Garrett, co-CEO Hackensack Meridian Health |
Male | $5,208,496 | 24.3% | 24.4% |
| Dr. David Feinberg Geisinger Health System |
Male | $4,968,501 | 4.1% | 27.0% |
| Marna Borgstrom Yale New Haven Health System |
Female | $4,749,448 | 2.0% | 40.9% |
| Thomas Priselac Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
Male | $4,600,705 | 16.1% | 25.0% |
| Sarah Krevans Sutter Health |
Female | $4,485,133 | 6.9% | 17.6% |
| John Lloyd, co-CEO Hackensack Meridian Health |
Male | $4,478,810 | 10.1% | 28.4% |
| Terry Shaw AdventHealth (formerly Adventist Health System) |
Male | $4,288,431 | 33.5% | 22.7% |
| John Fox Beaumont Health System |
Male | $4,224,061 | 13.7% | 27.0% |
| James Britton Mercy Health |
Male | $3,913,099 | 6.2% | 35.1% |
| Dr. Stephen Klasko Thomas Jefferson University |
Male | $3,758,693 | 2.0% | 23.9% |
| Michael Dowling Northwell Health |
Male | $3,579,554 | 0.7% | 56.7% |
| Wright L. Lassiter III Henry Ford Health System |
Male | $3,569,911 | 0.7% | 41.2% |
| Carl Armato Novant Health |
Male | $3,545,784 | 18.4% | 37.5% |
| Dr. John Noseworthy Mayo Clinic Health System |
Male | $3,452,637 | 19.8% | 0.0% |
| Tommy Inzina BayCare Health System |
Male | $3,442,698 | 38.3% | 20.9% |
| Dr. Marc Harrison Intermountain Healthcare |
Male | $3,320,542 | 0.3% | 23.1% |
| Dr. Craig Thompson Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
Male | $3,077,522 | 11.2% | 0.0% |
| Dr. Jeffrey Balser Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
Male | $3,066,342 | 1.0% | 24.9% |
| James Hinton Baylor Scott & White Health |
Male | $3,032,877 | 5.2% | 45.6% |
| Dr. Tomislav Mihaljevic Cleveland Clinic Health System |
Male | $3,023,696 | 9.9% | 0.0% |
| Randy Oostra ProMedica |
Male | $3,016,318 | 12.5% | 33.6% |
| Ralph Muller University of Pennsylvania Health System |
Male | $2,981,218 | 1.1% | 26.3% |
| Richard Breon Spectrum Health |
Male | $2,962,592 | 1.2% | 45.7% |
| David Entwistle Stanford Health Care |
Male | $2,780,807 | 1.8% | 27.6% |
| Laura Kaiser SSM Health Care |
Female | $2,733,005 | 0.8% | 14.6% |
| Dr. Richard Gilfillan Trinity Health |
Male | $2,725,228 | 14.6% | 31.2% |
| Dr. Paul Rothman Johns Hopkins Health System |
Male | $2,723,904 | 0.9% | 20.8% |
| Dr. Penny Wheeler Allina Health |
Female | $2,520,957 | 7.7% | 28.4% |
| Barclay Berdan Texas Health Resources |
Male | $2,443,636 | 9.7% | 33.6% |
| Kelby Krabbenhoft Sanford Health |
Male | $2,288,911 | 3.9% | 23.7% |
| Charles Stokes Memorial Hermann Healthcare System |
Male | $2,088,519 | 11.2% | 27.0% |
| Andrea Walsh HealthPartners |
Female | $2,016,597 | 3.9% | 19.8% |
| Richard Liekweg BJC HealthCare |
Male | $2,000,434 | 5.6% | 38.2% |
| Michael Riordan, co-CEO Prisma Health |
Male | $1,943,313 | 9.8% | 23.0% |
| Dale Maxwell Presbyterian Healthcare Services |
Male | $1,906,320 | 1.6% | 17.5% |
| James Hereford Fairview Health Services |
Male | $1,865,094 | 0.0% | 23.6% |
| Kevin Vermeer UnityPoint Health |
Male | $1,726,908 | 3.1% | 11.3% |
| Charles Beaman Jr., co-CEO Prisma Health |
Male | $1,584,566 | 0.1% | 21.9% |
| John Starcher Jr.* Mercy Health |
Male | $3,255,988 | 53.1% | 0.0% |
| Dr. Steven Safyer* Montefiore Health System |
Male | $8,030,595 | 43.0% | 30.6% |
| Howard Kern* Sentara Healthcare |
Male | $5,590,896 | 11.1% | 26.3% |
| Barry Ostrowsky* RWJ Barnabas Health |
Male | $4,978,165 | 21.1% | 36.2% |
1 2018 earned compensation was calculated from salary information in Schedule J of Form 990s, summing total and related total compensation and subtracting from it any compensation reported as deferred on prior Form 990s. Compensation marked with an A indicates entries where previously deferred pay was listed, and the compensation adjusted.
2 Percentage as “other” is the percentage of unadjusted total and related total compensation that can be found in Form 990s, column B(iii): “Other reportable compensation.” This column can include - but is not limited to - previously reported deferred pay. The percentage reported is provided for context, especially for instances where previously reported deferred pay was not broken out as instructed in the Form 990, and so the 2018 earned compensation was not adjusted.
3 Percentage as “bonus” is the percentage of unadjusted total and related total compensation that can be found in Form 990s, column B(ii): “Bonus & incentive compensation.”
* This is an updated list that originally ran with data as of May, when some financial statements were unavailable. New entries have been marked with an *.
** Deceased