Hospital Exec$ Unmasked

Is hospital greed making healthcare unaffordable for New Yorkers? While New York’s working-class families face an affordability crisis, NYC’s wealthiest hospitals are jacking up prices and charging patients nearly 4 times what it costs to actually provide care in 2023!

But this is just the tip of the iceberg. The ultra-wealthy CEOs and board members of Montefiore, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian have done it all, from colluding with insurance companies to increase prices for patients to partnering with the infamous healthcare scam company Theranos. Some even appear in the Epstein files.

Check out a break-down below of what the public should know about the greedy healthcare executives and board members who have forced nurses out on strike and are putting NYC patient and nurse safety at risk.

Montefiore

  • Montefiore’s CEO Dr. Ozuah consistently ranks in the top 5 highest-paid CEOs. In 2024, he brought in $16.7 million in total compensation, making him the second highest-paid hospital executive in the New York area. Between 2020 and 2024, Dr. Ozuah’s pay doubled, increasing by 125%. No other hospital CEO in New York City saw similar increases in that period.

Montefiore CEO Dr. Philip Ozuah

Mount Sinai

  • Mount Sinai CEO Brendan Carr brought in $5.4 million in total compensation in 2024. In 2023, former CEO Kenneth Davis brought in $7.2 million in total compensation.

  • In 2025, it was revealed that one of Mount Sinai’s billionaire board members, Brad Karp, socialized with Jefferey Epstein for years. Karp’s name appears hundreds of times in the Epstein files and emails show that two had phone dates, attended dinner parties together, and that Epstein scored tickets for Karp to the premiere of a Woody Allen movie.

    Karp also sits on the board of NewYork-Presbyterian.

Mount Sinai CEO Dr. Brendan Carr

Mount Sinai and NewYork-Presbyterian Trustee and Paul Weiss Chairman
Brad Karp

NewYork-Presbyterian

  • In 2024, NewYork-Presbyterian CEO Steve Corwin raked in $26.3 million in salary, benefits and perks—that’s over $2.1 million per month, and nearly $72,000 per day. In just one day, NYP CEO Steve Corwin makes more money than many New York City families make in an entire year. In 2023, over 30 of NYP’s top-paid executives made more than $1 million in salary, benefits, and perks.

  • In January 2024, Dr. Brian Donley became the new CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian, replacing Steve Corwin. In 2024, Donley made $5.4 million in salary, benefits and perks.

    • Donley partnered with the infamous healthcare scam company Theranos during his time as a senior executive at the Cleveland Clinic.

    • Donley was also the head of the Cleveland Clinic London from 2018 to 2022. During his tenure, he opened a UK outpost of a private hospital, working to lure National Health Service (NHS) doctors away from the public health system to work in a private clinic where patients needed expensive private health insurance.

  • Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, also known as the “king of private equity,” sits on the board of NewYork-Presbyterian. Schwarzman is not just a billionaire—he’s the 33rd richest person in the world. He’s also good friends with Donald Trump and donated to the new White House ballroom.

  • In addition to Schwarzman, approximately 20 members of NewYork-Presbyterian's board are billionaires or from billionaire families—it’s no wonder they are willing to risk nurse and patient safety to turn a profit.

Former NewYork-Presbyterian CEO
Dr. Steve Corwin

NewYork-Presbyterian CEO
Dr. Brian Donley

NewYork-Presbyterian Trustee and Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman

Take action to support striking nurses in the fight for a fair contract!

How can we trust billionaire-led healthcare systems to prioritize patients over profits? We can’t. That’s why 15,000 NYSNA nurses are on strike to demand a fair contract that protects safe, quality patient care for all New Yorkers.

Take action today by calling NYC’s greedy hospital executives and letting them know: New York’s nurses and patients deserve a fair contract now!

  • Brian Donley, MD, NewYork-Presbyterian, CEO: (216) 780-0932

  • Brendan G. Carr, MD, MA, MS Mount Sinai, CEO: (215) 901-2574

  • Philip O. Ozuah, MD, PHD Montefiore, CEO: (917) 693-3098