Of those 32, three executives led some of the nation’s largest for-profit hospital systems: King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services, Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare and Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare. The full list includes 200 chief executives from public companies with revenue of at least $1 billion.
Here are the 32 healthcare companies and CEOs that made the list, in order of total compensation in 2018. Total compensation may include salary, bonuses, perks, stock and options.
- Hologic, Stephen MacMillan — $42 million
- Align Technology, Joseph Hogan — $42 million
- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Leonard Schleifer — $27 million
- Centene, Michael Neidorff — $26 million
- Universal Health Services, Alan Miller — $24 million
- Abbott Laboratories, Miles White — $23 million
- CVS Health, Larry Merlo — $22 million
- Merck, Kenneth Frazier — $21 million
- Abbvie, Richard Gonzalez — $21 million
- Johnson & Johnson, Alex Gorsky — $20 million
- HCA Healthcare, R. Milton Johnson — $20 million
- Pfizer, Ian Read — $20 million
- Bristol-Myers Squibb, Giovanni Caforio — $19 million
- Cigna, David Cordani — $19 million
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Jeffrey Leiden — $19 million
- Thermo Fisher Scientific, Marc Casper — $19 million
- Amgen, Robert Bradway — $19 million
- UnitedHealth Group, David Wichmann — $18 million
- DaVita, Kent Thiry — $17 million
- Gilead Sciences, John Milligan — $17 million
- Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Ludwig Hantson — $16 million
- Humana, Bruce Broussard — $16 million
- Celgene, Mark Alles — $16 million
- Biogen, Michel Vounatsos — $16 million
- United Therapeutics, Martine Rothblatt — $16 million
- IQVIA Holdings, Ari Bousbib — $16 million
- Eli Lilly, David Ricks — $16 million
- Baxter International, José Almeida — $16 million
- Biomarin Pharmaceutical, Jean-Jacques Bienaimé — $16 million
- Danaher, Thomas Joyce Jr. — $15 million
- Molina Healthcare, Joseph Zubretsky — $15 million
- Tenet Healthcare, Ron Rittenmeyer — $15 million
See the full ranking here.
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