Big health system, payer CEO salaries ranked

Most of the top-earning executives at some of the nation's largest for-profit healthcare organizations saw their overall compensation increase in 2023, according to proxy statements recently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Editor's note: Total compensation can include salary, bonuses, stock and option awards, change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings and other compensation.

Highest-earning chief executives in 2023 among large payers and health systems:

1. UnitedHealth Group
Andrew Witty

  • Salary: $1,500,000
  • Stock awards: $15,000,970
  • Option awards: $5,000,114
  • Non-equity incentive plan: $1,800,000
  • Other compensation: $233,852
  • Total: $23,534,936
    • 12.8% increase from 2022 ($20,865,106)


2. Elevance Health

Gail Boudreaux

  • Salary: $1,600,000
  • Stock awards: $11,850,043
  • Option awards: $3,950,036
  • Non-equity incentive plan: $3,648,000
  • Other compensation: $840,960
  • Total: $21,889,039
    • 4.6% increase since 2022 ($20,931,081)


3. CVS Health
Karen Lynch

  • Salary: $1,500,000
  • Stock awards: $12,374,971
  • Option awards: $4,124,992
  • Non-equity incentive plan: $2,992,000
  • Other compensation: $623,071
  • Total: $21,615,034
    • 1.4% increase since 2022 ($21,317,055)

4. Molina Healthcare
Joseph Zubretsky

  • Salary: $1,500,000
  • Stock awards: $15,500,092
  • Non-equity incentive plan compensation: $4,410,000
  • Other compensation: $81,631
  • Total: $21,491,723
    • 2.9% decrease since 2022 ($22,131,256)

5. HCA Healthcare
Sam Hazen

  • Salary: $1,512,222
  • Stock awards: $6,957,391
  • Option awards: $7,242,825
  • Non-equity incentive plan compensation: $5,026,128
  • Other compensation: $577,418
  • Total: $21,315,984
    • 45.6% increase from 2022 ($14,637,726)

6. Cigna Group
David Cordani

  • Salary: $1,500,000
  • Stock awards: $12,656,213
  • Option awards: $3,200,020
  • Non-equity incentive plan compensation: $3,300,000
  • Change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation: $80,585
  • Other compensation: $310,437
  • Total: $21,047,255
    • 0.4% increase since 2022 ($20,965,504)

7. Centene
Sarah London

  • Salary: $1,400,000
  • Stock awards: $13,573,031
  • Non-equity incentive plan compensation: $3,298,600
  • Other compensation: $285,335
  • Total: $18,556,966
    • 40.1% increase since 2022 ($13,246,447)

8. Tenet Healthcare
Saum Sutaria, MD

  • Salary: $1,500,000
  • Stock awards: $10,130,393
  • Non-equity incentive plan compensation: $6,300,000
  • Other: $587,717
  • Total: $18,518,109
    • 67.6% increase from 2022 ($11,047,128)

9. Humana
Bruce Broussard

  • Salary: $1,469,893
  • Stock awards: $10,898,833
  • Option awards: $3,492,874
  • Other compensation: $465,784
  • Total: $16,327,384
    • 5.1% decrease since 2022 ($17,198,844)

10. Universal Health Services
Marc Miller

  • Salary: $1,352,052
  • Stock awards: $4,944,124
  • Option awards: $4,944,434
  • Non-equity incentive plan compensation: $3,042,117
  • Change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation: $78,003
  • Other compensation: $47,207
  • Total: $14,407,937
    • 31.9% increase from 2022 ($10,919,976)

11. Community Health Systems
Tim Hingtgen

  • Salary: $1,287,550
  • Stock awards: $3,690,000
  • Option awards: $922,000
  • Non-equity incentive plan compensation: $2,072,955
  • Change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation: $347,168
  • Other compensation: $28,550
  • Total: $8,348,223
    • 32.5% increase from 2022 ($6,302,542)

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