University Times

UPMC president and CEO Jeffrey A. Romoff was the health care system’s highest-paid employee in 2012, with compensation totaling $6,551,075, according to an annual report to the IRS that was released earlier this month.

In the UPMC Group’s IRS 990 filing for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, Romoff’s compensation for the 2012 calendar year was broken down as $959,017 in base compensation; $3,050,000 in bonus and incentive compensation; $447,403 in other reportable compensation; $2,072,207 in retirement and other deferred compensation, and $22,448 in nontaxable benefits.

In its annual IRS 990, UPMC stated that 4,159 individuals received more than $100,000 of reportable compensation from the organization in 2012.

Highest-paid non-officers

Excluding officers, directors and trustees, UPMC’s five highest compensated employees were:

• Neurosurgeon Ghassan Bejjani — $2,499,277.
• Neurosurgeon Richard Spiro — $1,353,170.
• Orthopaedic surgeon Mark Rodosky — $1,664,979.
• Cardiologist Thomas Gleason — $1,474,141.
• Neurosurgeon Paul Gardner — $1,330,118.

Compensation includes base compensation, bonus and incentive compensation, other reportable compensation, retirement and other deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits.

Key employees

The filing included compensation from the organization and related organizations for the following key employees in 2012:

• Charles E. Bogosta, UPMC executive vice president and president, International and Commercial Services Division — $1,489,160.
• Robert J. Cindrich, UPMC senior adviser to the president — $1,360,673.
• Elizabeth B. Concordia, UPMC executive vice president — $2,637,857.
• Andrea Cotter, senior vice president and chief communications officer — $532,174.
• Sandra N. Danoff, UPMC senior vice president for strategic planning — $872,644.
• Daniel Drawbaugh, UPMC senior vice president and chief information officer — $1,591,900.
• David M. Farner, UPMC senior vice president and chief of staff — $2,096,627.
• C. Talbot Heppenstall Jr., UPMC senior vice president and treasurer — $1,272,582.
• Diane P. Holder, UPMC executive vice president and president, UPMC Health Plan — $2,122,084, all from related organizations.
• W. Thomas McGough, senior vice president and chief legal officer — $1,548,519.
• Gregory K. Peaslee, UPMC senior vice president and chief human resources and administrative services officer — $1,584,399.
• Steven D. Shapiro, chief medical and science officer — $1,166,681 from the organization and $203,658 from related organizations.
• Marshall W. Webster, UPMC executive vice president — $1,437,825 from the organization and $131,281 from related organizations.

Department chairs

Compensation from UPMC was reported for the following department chairs:

• Derek Angus, critical care medicine — $519,326.
• K. Ty Bae, radiology — $585,983.
• Timothy R. Billiar, surgery — $847,500 and $247,343 from related organizations.
• Michael Boninger, physical medicine and rehabilitation — $291,593.
• Louis D. Falo Jr., dermatology — $454,582.
• Robert M. Friedlander, neurological surgery — $1,461,868.
• Freddie H. Fu, orthopaedic surgery — $1,416,902.
• Joel S. Greenberger, radiation oncology — $520,541.
• W. Allen Hogge, obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences — $551,676.
• Jonas T. Johnson, otolaryngology — $783,825.
• James Kang, orthopaedic spinal surgery — $1,659,664.
• David A. Lewis, psychiatry — $473,695.
• James D. Luketich, cardiothoracic surgery — $2,644,843.
• George K. Michalopoulos, pathology — $476,972.
• Joel B. Nelson, urology — $870,863.
• David Hirsch Perlmutter, pediatrics — $518,905.
• John J. Reilly, medicine — $462,698.
• Joel S. Schuman, ophthalmology — $583,009.
• Jeannette E. South-Paul, family medicine — $218,779.
• Lawrence Wechsler, neurology — $614,183.
• John P. Williams, anesthesiology — $520,110.
• Donald Yealy, emergency medicine — $467,614.

Compensation was made up of base compensation, bonus and incentive compensation, other reportable compensation, retirement and other deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits.

Highest-paid contractors

• UPMC’s five highest-paid contractors were:
• General contractor Massaro Corp. — $30,630,999;
• Rehab services provider Centers for Rehab Services — $29,127,282;
• Barton Malow PJ Dick Joint Venture, $28,838,007;
• General contractor Rycon Construction — $20,213,039, and
• General contractor PJ Dick Contracting — $18,036,776.

UPMC stated that 167 independent contractors received reportable compensation from the organization.

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UPMC’s 990 filings can be found at www.upmc.com/about/finances/irs-filings.

—Kimberly K. Barlow