Health Administration Responsibility Project

HMO Executive Salaries
Reprinted from FAMILIES USA


The HMOs complain that any increase in their costs of treating patients will require them to raise premiums, making them too costly, and causing many to go without insurance.

Are their budgets really so spare that they couldn't absorb any cost increases without raising premiums?

For a start, we might look at the amount of premium dollars removed from patient care by being paid to executives.

You decide how much room there is for savings.


The 25 Highest Paid HMO Executives 1996 Annual Compensation
Exclusive of Unexercised Stock Options

Stephen Wiggins, CEO, Oxford Health Plans, Inc. $29,061,599
Wilson Taylor, Chairman and CEO, CIGNA Corporation $11,568,410
David Snow, Executive Vice President, Oxford Health Plans, Inc. $10,403,451
Robert Smoler, Executive Vice President, Oxford Health Plans, Inc. $10,085,972
William Sullivan, President, Oxford Health Plans, Inc. $7,823,076
Joseph Sebastianelli, President, Aetna, Inc. $7,394,506
Michael Cardillo, Executive Vice President, Aetna, Inc. $7,069,969
Leonard Schaeffer, Chairman and CEO, WellPoint Health Networks, Inc. $7,010,698
George Jochum, President and CEO, Mid-Atlantic Medical Services, Inc. $6,526,065
Ronald Compton, Chairman and CEO, Aetna, Inc. $5,813,287
Wayne Smith, Former President, Humana, Inc. $5,166,575
James Stewart, Executive Vice President, CIGNA Corporation $4,832,799
Richard Huber, Vice Chairman, Aetna, Inc. $4,801,841
Roger Taylor, Executive Vice President, PacifiCare Health Systems, Inc. $4,103,864
Daniel Crowley, CEO and President, Foundation Health Corporation $3,849,023
Gerald Isom, President, Property and Casualty, CIGNA Corporation $3,778,293
Alan Hoops, President and CEO, PacifiCare Health Systems, Inc. $3,221,602
Daniel Kearney, Executive Vice President, Aetna, Inc $3,189,272
D. Mark Weinberg, Exec. Vice President, WellPoint Health Networks, Inc. $3,009,944
Donald Levinson, Executive Vice President, CIGNA Corporation $2,985,017
Ronald Williams, Exec. Vice President, WellPoint Health Networks, Inc. $2,827,381
Allen Wise, Executive Vice President, United HealthCare Corporation $2,697,751
Jeffrey Elder, Senior Vice President, Foundation Health Corporation $2,235,783
H. Edward Hanway, President CIGNA HealthCare, CIGNA Corporation $2,217,711
Kirk Benson, President and COO, Foundation Health Corporation $2,104,414

Totals, by Company, of Executives in above list only:

Oxford Health Plans, Inc. $57,374,098
Aetna, Inc $28,268,875
CIGNA Corporation $25,382,230
WellPoint Health Networks, Inc. $12,848,023
Foundation Health Corporation $8,189,220
Mid-Atlantic Medical Services, Inc. $6,526,065
PacifiCare Health Systems, Inc. $7,325,466
Humana, Inc. $5,166,575
United HealthCare Corporation $2,697,751
Cumulative Total $153,778,303

The 25 Executives with the Largest Unexercised
Stock Option Packages in 1996

Stephen Wiggins, CEO, Oxford Health Plans, Inc. $82,799,000
William McGuire, CEO, United HealthCare Corporation $50,042,237
David Snow, Executive Vice President, Oxford Health Plans, Inc. $23,888,000
William Sullivan, President, Oxford Health Plans, Inc. $20,408,000
Alan Hoops, President and CEO, PacifiCare Health Systems, Inc. $15,338,120
Robert Smoler, Executive Vice President, Oxford Health Plans, Inc. $14,015,000
Wilson Taylor, Chairman and CEO, CIGNA Corporation $12,057,758
Samuel Miller, Executive Vice President, United Wisconsin Services, Inc. $9,340,174
Wayne Smith, Former President, Humana, Inc. $9,170,060
Ronald Compton, Chairman and CEO, Aetna, Inc. $8,466,861
Peter Ratican, CEO and President, Maxicare Health Plans, Inc. $7,675,726
Eugene Froelich, Executive Vice President, Maxicare Health Plans, Inc. $7,675,726
Jeffrey Folick, Executive Vice President, PacifiCare Health Systems, Inc. $7,175,127
Leonard Schaeffer, Chairman and CEO, WellPoint Health Networks, Inc. $7,173,773
James Stewart, Executive Vice President, CIGNA Corporation $7,073,436
Travers Wills, COO, United HealthCare Corporation $6,963,427
Gerald Isom, President, Property and Casualty, CIGNA Corporation $6,394,629
Jeffrey Boyd, Executive Vice President, Oxford Health Plans, Inc. $6,323,000
Malik Hasan, CEO, Health Systems International, Inc. $5,998,062
Richard Huber, Vice Chairman, Aetna, Inc. $5,289,951
Daniel Kearney, Executive Vice President, Aetna, Inc. $5,006,625
George Jochum, President and CEO, Mid-Atlantic Medical Services, Inc. $4,941,189
Wayne Lowell, Executive Vice President, PacifiCare Health Systems, Inc. $4,775,598
H. Edward Hanway, President CIGNA HealthCare, CIGNA Corporation $ 4,743,391
Daniel Crowley, CEO and President, Foundation Health Corporation $ 4,621,590

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