Every year, publicly traded healthcare companies disclose what their top five highest-paid executives made — but the CIO or tech chief typically doesn’t make that list.
Under SEC rules, a public company’s proxy statement has to name its CEO, its CFO and the three other most highly compensated executive officers (plus, in some years, one or two more who would have qualified but left the company). Everyone else’s pay stays private.
Becker’s reviewed proxy statements across for-profit health systems, payers, pharmacy and distribution companies, diagnostics, medical device makers and pharmaceutical companies to see where a technology executive’s compensation became public. The exceptions were rare:
Tenet Healthcare (Dallas). Paola Arbour, executive vice president and chief information officer, made $4.1 million in 2025, according to Tenet’s proxy statement — the only for-profit hospital operator where a CIO’s pay is publicly disclosed. She was Tenet’s fifth-highest-paid executive that year, behind CEO Saum Sutaria, the chief administrative officer/general counsel, the chief operating officer and the CFO. Ms. Arbour is retiring as CIO effective Dec. 31, 2026, and will remain in a nonexecutive transition role through April 2028.
CVS Health. Tilak Mandadi, executive vice president, ventures and chief experience and technology officer, earned nearly $11 million in 2025. Mr. Mandadi joined CVS Health in 2022 as chief data, digital and technology officer; his role expanded in 2024 to include CVS Health Ventures, the company’s healthcare technology investment arm, and his title changed accordingly in 2025.
GE HealthCare. Taha Kass-Hout, MD, chief science and technology officer, received $6 million in total compensation in 2025, according to the company’s most recent proxy statement — GE HealthCare’s second-highest-paid executive that year, behind CEO Peter Arduini. Dr. Kass-Hout leads the medical imaging and diagnostics company’s science and technology organization, with a focus on AI-enabled imaging and diagnostics.
The CIO or chief digital and information officer at every other publicly traded health system didn’t crack the top five. The pattern holds well beyond hospital operators. UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, Elevance Health, Humana, Centene, Molina Healthcare, Pfizer, McKesson, Medtronic and IQVIA all do not disclose a CIO’s or chief digital officer’s pay.
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