University Times

UPMC president and CEO Jeffrey R. Romoff again topped the list of the health care system’s highest paid employees in fiscal year 2008.

Romoff made $4,448,181, and was paid $72,367 in benefits, according to IRS form 990, which requires tax-exempt corporations to report compensation for their five top-earning, non-officer employees as well as for officers, directors and trustees by May 15 of the following year.

Five physicians were named as UPMC’s highest-paid employees (excluding officers, directors and trustees). They were:

• Kenton James Zehr of thoracic surgery, $1,690,337 in compensation and $15,235 in benefits;

• Neurosurgeon Ghassan Bejjani, $1,682,408 in compensation and $15,355 in benefits;

• James D. Luketich of thoracic surgery, $1,311,650 in compensation and $21,120 in benefits;

• Neurosurgeon Michael B. Horowitz, $1,097,188 in compensation and $21,074 in benefits, and

• Neurosurgeon L. Dade Lunsford, $1,036,171 in compensation and $23,130 in benefits.

UPMC reported that 12,260 other unspecified employees were paid more than $50,000 each. UPMC employs 50,000 people in 20 hospitals, 400 outpatient sites and doctor’s offices and retirement and long-term care facilities.

In its IRS reporting, UPMC provides one form 990 for the UPMC parent organization and merges the financial information of its controlled subsidiaries, referred to as UPMC Group, into a consolidated form 990.

Due to the large number of UPMC employees across the health system’s entities listed on the 990 form, the University Times chose to focus on UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, UPMC’s largest unit, and on the faculty-physician partnership University of Pittsburgh Physicians (UPP) practice. UPMC’s IRS 990 filing can be found at www.upmc.com by clicking on “About UPMC” then “Financial Information.”

Compensation amounts listed represent the full compensation packages paid to the individuals for performing their assigned duties at UPMC and not for any service as directors or board members. A portion of the disclosed compensation may be previously reported deferred compensation. A portion of the reported benefits also may be earned but deferred compensation.

Officers, directors and trustees who were compensated by UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside included Romoff and the following:

• Paul Castillo, UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside chief financial officer — $307,761 in compensation; $29,229 in benefits.

• Robert J. Cindrich, UPMC chief legal officer — $1,176,893 in compensation; $166,137 in benefits.

• Elizabeth Concordia, UPMC senior VP for academic and community hospitals — $1,450,145 in compensation; $163,545 in benefits.

• Robert A. DeMichiei, UPMC chief financial officer — $975,271 in compensation; $124,797 in benefits.

• C. Talbot Heppenstall Jr., UPMC treasurer — $757,939 in compensation; $100,326 in benefits.

• John Innocenti, UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside president — $772,991 in compensation; $84,209 in benefits.

• Michele P. Jegasothy, UPMC corporate secretary and associate counsel — $218,297 in compensation; $22,621 in benefits.

• Edward T. Karlovich, chief financial officer for academic and community hospitals — $702,034 in compensation; $75,105 in benefits.

• Margarita Marsh, assistant secretary and assistant to UPMC president — $56,166 in compensation; $4,855 in benefits.

• Former UPMC VP and counsel George A. Huber received $2,389,200 in compensation.

UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside also compensated the following employees under the category “compensation provided by related organization”:

• Claudia Roth, VP of behavioral health and president of WPIC — $502,177 in compensation; $54,745 in benefits.

• Tamra Merryman, VP of quality management — $417,098 in compensation; $35,298 in benefits.

• JW Wallace, senior director of diversity initiatives — $142,645 in compensation; $19,748 in benefits.

• W. Dennis Zerega, VP of graduate medical education — $254,029 in compensation; $28,757 in benefits.

• Robert B. Devlin, senior associate counsel — $248,222 in compensation; $24,657 in benefits.

• Bryant Wesley, associate counsel — $150,487 in compensation; $9,341 in benefits.

• Marlene R. Cooper, director of graduate medical education finance — $102,826 in compensation; $17,923 in benefits.

• Daniel Drawbaugh, senior VP and chief information officer — $1,068,087 in compensation; $153,544 in benefits.

• Phillip Green, president of Strategic Business Initiatives — $927,147 in compensation; $155,648 in benefits.

• Scott Gilstrap, VP of the Innovative Medical and Information Technologies Center — $202,506 in compensation; $20,243 in benefits.

• Deanne Krugh, VP of the IMITS Center — $4,028 in compensation; $2,391 in benefits.

• Edward Marinzel, VP of security — $212,997 in compensation; $26,055 in benefits.

• Michael Riska, CFO of the International Commercial Service Division — $330,893 in compensation; $28,501 in benefits.

• Rebecca O’Connor, associate counsel — $31,598 in compensation; $3,354 in benefits.

• William Shaffner, senior associate counsel — $301,123 in compensation; $29,622 in benefits.

• Eric Cartwright, VP of construction and corporate real estate — $398,065 in compensation; $50,677 in benefits.

• Gregory K. Peaslee, senior VP — $917,036 in compensation; $132,253 in benefits.

• Alexander J. Ciocca, senior associate legal counsel — $297,241 in compensation; $28,168 in benefits.

• V. Thomas Worrall, physician — $189,997 in compensation; $4,790 in benefits.

• Tracey Sweeney Burns, assistant to VP — $45,932 in compensation; $4,016 in benefits.

• Charles Bogosta, executive VP — $655,431 in compensation; $188,221 in benefits.

• Stanley Marks, physician — $885,112 in compensation; $19,313 in benefits.

• Jeffrey Shogan, physician — $774,648 in compensation; $16,922 in benefits.

• David Farner, senior VP and chief of staff — $977,637 in compensation; $132,253 in benefits.

• David Bobrzynski, WPIC VP of finance — $180,398 in compensation; $21,945 in benefits.

• Stephen Nimmo, managing associate counsel — $341,886 in compensation; $30,552 in benefits.

• Mark Sevco, VP of operations — $292,919 in compensation; $36,139 in benefits.

The UPMC filing included compensation by the UPP faculty-physician partnership. UPP members also were Pitt faculty. Amounts listed represent compensation for duties performed at UPMC and do not include pay from the University. Board members receive no pay for their board positions.

Officers, directors and trustees compensated by UPP were:

• Marshall Webster, UPP president — $834,846 in compensation; $106,530 in benefits.

• Loren H. Roth, board secretary — $840,096 in compensation; $113,360 in benefits.

• Joel B. Nelson, board treasurer and urology chair — $583,794 in compensation; $19,626 in benefits.

• David Bartlett, chief, Division of Surgical Oncology — $532,156 in compensation; $12,579 in benefits.

• Mark Benninghoff, VP — $385,162 in compensation; $46,368 in benefits.

• Marguerite Bonaventura, professor of surgery — $342,849 in compensation; $21,077 in benefits.

• Anthony Harrison, physician — $20,367 in compensation; $1,188 in benefits.

• Deborah L. Holder, professor of pediatrics — $129,057 in compensation; $6,473 in benefits.

• Mary Korytkowski, professor of medicine — $41,100 in compensation; $3,479 in benefits.

• Barry London, Cardiovascular Institute administrative director — $384,996 in compensation; $18,687 in benefits.

• Ann Szell, chief financial officer — $330,567 in compensation; $19,271 in benefits.

… and the following department chairs:

• Derek Angus, critical care medicine — $195,581 in compensation; $9,434 in benefits.

• Timothy R. Billiar, surgery — $597,595 in compensation; $20,511 in benefits.

• Michael Boninger, interim chair of physical medicine and rehabilitation — $49,300 in compensation; $1,651 in benefits.

• Steven T. DeKosky, neurology — $259,998 in compensation; $19,877 in benefits.

• Louis D. Falo Jr., dermatology — $234,999 in compensation; $17,142 in benefits.

• Freddie H. Fu, orthopaedics — $733,788 in compensation; $22,729 in benefits.

• Joel S. Greenberger, radiation oncology — $409,997 in compensation; $21,012 in benefits.

• W. Allen Hogge, obstetrics/gynecology — $358,696 in compensation; $20,490 in benefits.

• Jonas T. Johnson, otolaryngology — $509,994 in compensation; $21,311 in benefits.

• Amin Bardai Kassam, neurosurgery — $1,459,986 in compensation; $18,363 in benefits.

• David J. Kupfer, psychiatry — $424,998 in compensation; $21,224 in benefits.

• George K. Michalopoulos, pathology — $309,998 in compensation; $20,214 in benefits.

• Scott A. Mirowitz, radiology — $533,693 in compensation; $14,497 in benefits.

• Paul Mark Paris, emergency medicine — $243,697 in compensation; $19,609 in benefits.

• David Hirsch Perlmutter, pediatrics — $334,999 in compensation; $18,496 in benefits.

• Joel S. Schuman, ophthalmology — $385,259 in compensation; $18,394 in benefits.

• Steven Shapiro, medicine — $359,996 in compensation; $20,409 in benefits.

• Jeannette E. South-Paul, family medicine — $200,900 in compensation; $9,163 in benefits.

• Ann Thompson, interim chair of critical care medicine, — $172,680 in compensation; $16,611 in benefits.

• John P. Williams, anesthesiology — $368,542 in compensation; $18,317 in benefits.

• Ross D. Zafonte, physical medicine and rehabilitation — $113,791 in compensation; $10,552 in benefits.

UPP also paid the following employees under the category “compensation provided by related organization”:

• Robert Blosat, VP and chief operating officer — $318,828 in compensation; $28,797 in benefits.

• Susan Kostilnik, senior executive assistant — $21,034 in compensation; $4,559 in benefits.

• Terrence Lewis, assistant counsel — $130,771 in compensation; $10,366 in benefits.

• Thomas Newman, chief financial officer of UPMC St. Margaret — $23,575 in compensation; $6,311 in benefits.

• Valerie C. Trott, executive administrator — $247,659 in compensation; $14,864 in benefits.

• Joel H. Weinberg, VP of medical affairs — $628,055 in compensation; $29,437 in benefits.

• Donald M. Yealy, VP of emergency medicine — $204,759 in compensation; $14,770 in benefits.

… and the following UPP physicians:

• Steven Docimo — $342,841 in compensation; $17,746 in benefits.

• Howard Edington — $404,021 in compensation; $20,978 in benefits.

• Kevin Garrett — $291,086 in compensation; $28,468 in benefits.

• George K. Gittes — $427,496 in compensation; $16,249 in benefits.

• Kian S. Kooros — $160,000 in compensation; $8,043 in benefits.

• Frank Kroboth — $72,318 in compensation; $6,299 in benefits.

• Joon Sup Lee — $742,166 in compensation; $19,982 in benefits.

• David A. Nace — $170,911 in compensation; $9,674 in benefits.

• Rita M. Patel — $265,831 in compensation; $19,387 in benefits.

• Gary Silverman — $388,588 in compensation; $18,568 in benefits.

• Francis Solano — $487,495 in compensation; $29,399 in benefits.

• Robert Thompson — $323,234 in compensation; $18,462 in benefits.

• Adele L. Towers — $249,556 in compensation; $13,994 in benefits.

• Basil Zitelli — $89,416 in compensation; $7,591 in benefits.

UPMC also was required to report its five highest-paid independent contractors.

For professional services, the top five, receiving a combined total of more than $62.9 million, were:

• Center for Organ Recovery and Education, Pittsburgh, for organ recovery services, $20,429,625;

• Marsh USA, Pittsburgh, for insurance services, $14,157,234;

• Center for Rehab Services, McKeesport, for physical and occupational therapy services, $12,609,979;

• ITXM Clinical Services, Pittsburgh, for transfusion services, $9,976,648;

• North Hills Anesthesia, Pittsburgh, for anesthesia services, $5,803,290.

UPMC reported that 225 other unspecified independent contractors received more than $50,000 each for professional services.

UPMC’s top five independent contractors for other services received a combined total of more than $162.3 million. They are general contractors:

• Barton Malow PJ Dick Joint Venture, Pittsburgh, $81,250,889;

• Hunt Construction Group, Indianapolis, Ind., $44,454,152;

• Rycon Construction, Pittsburgh, $15,894,564;

• Massaro Corp., Pittsburgh, $12,445,424;

• Turner Construction, Pittsburgh, $8,341,378.

UPMC reported 61 other unspecified contractors received more than $50,000 each.

—Kimberly K. Barlow