CEO payouts at top healthcare systems

In the midst of game-changing healthcare reform, many hospitals approved hefty payouts for their top executives last year. Here, FierceHealthFinance presents a review of CEO compensation at the largest publicly traded healthcare systems based on 2009 revenue.

Using the Fortune 500 list of the health systems with the largest revenue in 2009, we examined the compensation of executives from the six largest systems. We looked at how (and if) factors like the economic climate, corporate litigation, and stock value affected the way those companies compensated execs.

We based our breakdown of hospital executive pay on information filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In the review, CEOs are listed in order of company revenue, not pay package value.

For more information, click on each name and get a more detailed remuneration profile.

1. Wayne Smith, Community Health Systems

2. Trevor Fetter, Tenet Healthcare

3. Kent Thiry, DaVita

4.  Alan Miller, Universal Health Services

5. Gary Newsome, Health Management Associates

6. Paul Diaz, Kindred