Health-insurer and hospital CEOs scored big paydays in 2020, a year defined by the pandemic.
Six out of eight CEOs made more last year than in 2019 on stock options and awards.
The paydays came as big insurers and some health systems grew profits despite COVID-19 challenges.
The CEOs of some of the biggest healthcare companies brought home tens of millions more in pay in 2020, despite the toll the COVID-19 pandemic took on the US economy at large.
Sam Hazen, the top executive at HCA Healthcare, the largest investor-owned hospital chain in the country, pocketed $83.6 million last year — more than four times what he made in 2019 — according to an Insider analysis of the company's financial documents.