Axios contributor Steven Brill has compiled a list of how much some hospital executives make in salary for every night a patient stays at the hospital, documenting what he calls “an alternate universe that is the American healthcare economy.”
The most extreme example Brill found was Greenwich Hospital CEO Norman Roth. Roth made $2.91 million in compensation in 2015 for running the 206-bed facility. Divided by the 51,643 patient days at the hospital, Roth made more than $56 for every night a patient stayed at the Connecticut hospital.
This is well above what other CEOs running larger and more well-known hospitals made. For example, now-retired Sutter Health CEO Patrick Fry was paid $6.35 million in 2015, but for more than 923,000 patient days at the system’s 24 hospitals, his earnings-per-patient-day came out to $6.88.
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