Hospital for Special Surgery CEO salary and executive pay
Hospital for Special Surgery paid its CEO, Bryan T Kelly, $5,329,588 for the fiscal year ending December 2024. On the return for the fiscal year ending December 2023, the CEO was Louis A Shapiro-To 923, paid $6,373,589. Total revenue on that return was $1,756,859,714, up 4.5% from $1,681,682,378 for the fiscal year ending December 2023. Hospital for Special Surgery ranks 59th of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. $1,045,924 of Bryan T Kelly's pay came from related organizations (column E). Hospital for Special Surgery has 3 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2024.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 13-1624135, New York, NY.
CEO, fiscal year ending December 2024
$5,329,588
- Total revenue
- $1,756,859,714
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 84%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending December 2024, IRS object ID 202533199349300203.View the filing
Peers: the 183 other hospital systems on this site. Ranked 30th of 184 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.30% of revenue, our calculation from the same return. Revenue is Part I, line 12; peers are compared on their latest full-year returns.
Highest-paid people on the latest return
On the latest return, 21 people were paid more than $500,000, 17 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Bryan T Kelly CEO President & CEO | $5,329,588 |
| Joshua DinesAttending Physician | $4,037,566 |
| Answorth AllenMember/Associate SIC | $3,530,188 |
| Louis A Shapiro-Thru 2023Former President & CEO | $3,428,637 |
| Stacey L MalakoffEVP & Chief Financial Officer | $2,964,817 |
Also paid on the latest return: Benedict Nwachukwu (Attending Physician), $2,950,369; William M Ricci (Chief of the Trauma Service), $2,681,834; Riley Williams (Attending Physician), $2,581,269; Ernest Sink (Chief of Ortho Hip Preser SVR), $2,394,938; Douglas Padgett (Member/Surgeon-in-Chief), $2,388,247; Mathias Bostrom (Member/Associate SIC), $2,037,860; Mary Cassai (EVP, Chief Operating Officer), $1,721,661; Hollis Potter (Radiologist-in-Chief), $1,644,642; Irene Koch (EVP & Chief Legal Officer), $1,419,397; Justin Oppenheimer (EVP, Chief Strategy Officer), $1,405,415; Reginald Odom (EVP & Chief People Officer), $1,298,481; S Louis Bridges Jr (Member/Physician-in-Chief), $1,014,774; Paul Coyne (Former Sr. VP & CNO-Thru 2023), $898,815; Stavros Memtsoudis-Join 2024 (Member/Anesthesiologist), $672,928; Suzanne Maher (Member/Chief Research Officer), $672,510; and 4 more.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: Patty Baker (Member-Joined BOT 2024), Daniel C Benton (Member), Herbert Black (Member), Michael C Brooks (Member), Kathryn Chenault (Member), Charles Coleman III (Member), Leslie Cornfeld (Member), Cynthia Foster Curry (Member), Anthony de Nicola (Member), James G Dinan (Member), Anne Ehrenkranz (Member), Michael Esposito (Vice Chair), Wayne AI Frederick (Member), Marina Kellen French (Member), Giammaria Giuliani (Member), Robert Goldstein (Member), Warren B Kanders (Member), Scott Kapnick (Member), Monica Keany (Vice Chair), Sacha Lainovic (Member), Richard Landgarten (Member-Join BOT 2024), Laurie Hodges Lapeyre (Vice Chair), Pablo Legorreta (Member), Lara R Lerner (Member), Kathy Leventhal (Member), and 20 more.
CEO pay by year
Each row is the CEO on that year's return.
| Fiscal year ending | Name and title | Total | Revenue | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2024 | Bryan T Kelly CEO President & CEO | $5,329,588 | $1,756,859,714 | Filing |
| Dec 2023 | Louis A Shapiro-To 923 CEO President & Chief Exec Officer | $6,373,589 | $1,681,682,378 | Filing |
| Dec 2022 | Louis A Shapiro CEO President & Chief Exec Officer | $4,254,269 | $1,509,770,732 | Filing |
How this pay was reported
The parts of each total, as reported on the return for the fiscal year ending December 2024.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending December 2024, IRS object ID 202533199349300203.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Related | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Bryan T KellyPresident & CEO | $4,183,697 | $1,045,924 | $99,967 | $2,162,555 | $1,956,740 | $64,402 | $24,841 | $55,133 | $4,263,671 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $540,639 | $489,185 | $16,100 | $6,210 | $13,783 | $1,065,917 | |||
| Joshua DinesAttending Physician | $3,947,922 | $0 | $89,644 | $864,627 | $0 | $3,083,295 | $31,050 | $58,594 | $4,037,566 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
| Answorth AllenMember/Associate SIC | $3,403,037 | $34,374 | $92,777 | $780,762 | $0 | $2,622,275 | $30,741 | $61,108 | $3,494,886 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $7,886 | $0 | $26,488 | $311 | $617 | $35,302 | |||
| Louis A Shapiro-Thru 2023*Former President & CEO | $3,428,637 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1,260,000 | $2,168,637 | $0 | $0 | $3,428,637 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
| Stacey L MalakoffEVP & Chief Financial Officer | $2,441,280 | $430,814 | $92,723 | $1,345,813 | $998,215 | $97,252 | $26,393 | $52,421 | $2,520,094 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $237,496 | $176,156 | $17,162 | $4,658 | $9,251 | $444,723 | |||
These figures come from Hospital for Special Surgery's Form 990 returns, as the IRS publishes them. The methodology page explains how they're chosen. To report an error, email corrections@ceopaycheck.com.
How Hospital for Special Surgery compares
Ranked 59th of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 58th, Stanford Health Care, $5,385,633
- Next in this ranking: 60th, Froedtert ThedaCare Health, $5,238,377
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
Rady Children's Health$2,563,540 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Lexington Medical Center$4,261,823 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago$2,617,499 (CEO), fiscal year ending Aug 2025
Hennepin Healthcare$1,007,646 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Maimonides Medical Center$1,815,126 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Common questions
Bryan T Kelly (President & CEO) was paid $5,329,588 for the fiscal year ending December 2024: $4,183,697 from Hospital for Special Surgery, $1,045,924 from related organizations and $99,967 in other compensation (Part VII columns D, E and F).
The CEO, Bryan T Kelly, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $5,329,588.
Hospital for Special Surgery paid its CEO, Bryan T Kelly, $5,329,588 for the fiscal year ending December 2024. On the return for the fiscal year ending December 2023, the CEO was Louis A Shapiro-To 923, paid $6,373,589. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending December 2022, when the CEO was Louis A Shapiro, paid $4,254,269. By fiscal year end: December 2022, $4,254,269 (Louis A Shapiro); December 2023, $6,373,589 (Louis A Shapiro-To 923); December 2024, $5,329,588 (Bryan T Kelly).
Hospital for Special Surgery's return for the fiscal year ending December 2024 reports total expenses of $1,642,543,258 and total revenue of $1,756,859,714 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $114,316,456. Expenses were $1,549,857,093 for the fiscal year ending December 2023, so they rose 6.0%. The CEO's pay of $5,329,588 equals 0.32% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 3 Form 990 returns Hospital for Special Surgery filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2024. The latest full-year return was filed on November 14, 2025. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending December 2024 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.