April 10, 2006

Healthcare CEO Pay Watch

The Star Tribune reports that UnitedHealth told the Securities & Exchange Commission it had created a panel to review how stock options are awarded to its top executives.

The paper lists some of the details of the SEC filing:

"William McGuire, Chairman and CEO

Total compensation: $10,697,442 for the year ended Dec. 31.
Salary: $2,200,000
Bonus: $5,808,000
Other compensation: $692,442
Long-term incentive pay: $1,997,000
Exercised stock options: $0
New stock options: 1,700,000

Had he retired on Dec. 31, his supplemental annual retirement benefit would be about $5,092,000 and his lump-sum payout would be $6,442,000.

Also disclosed in the proxy was the compensation of former Northwest Airlines CEO Richard Anderson, who joined UnitedHealth on Nov. 1, 2004. Anderson got a salary and bonus in 2005 of $1.2 million, plus 165,000 new stock options."

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