In July, when the Statesman compared hospital finances and executive salaries, the Internal Revenue Service had not yet released up-to-date tax forms for St. Luke's Hospital. This is the summary.

St. Luke's Boise and Meridian hospitals and Mountain States Tumor Institute, a subsidiary of St. Luke's

Gary Fletcher, CEO

Salary: $732,140 with an expense account of $2,502.

Tax documents say: $172,939 was either taxes the hospitals paid on his future retirement benefits or money he earned as benefits in past years, but didn't take home until 2007. An additional $236,528 was the hospital's 2007 contribution to Fletcher's employee benefit plan and deferred compensation. Some of the amounts reflect changes St. Luke's made in a special retirement fund called a supplemental executive retirement plan, or SERP - sometimes known as "top hat plans."

The plans, used nationwide, are usually reserved for top execs. Unlike other retirement funds, the employer bears the entire cost.

Jeffrey Taylor, VP, finance

Salary: $302,245 with a $1,327 expense account.

That included $245,008 in general compensation and $57,237 for an employee benefit plan.

Fletcher and Taylor also are the top execs at St. Luke's Mountain States Tumor Institute.

St. Luke's Health System execs

Ed Dahlberg, system president

Salary: $1.1 million, plus $1,273 expense account.

Of the total of $1.1 million, $219,655 was either taxes the hospitals paid on his future retirement benefits or was money he earned as benefits in past years, but didn't take home until 2007. An additional $358,085 was 2007 contributions to Dahlberg's employee benefit plan.

Clarence Pomeroy, system CFO

Salary: $624,562, no expenses

Of the total of $624,562, $76,423 was either taxes the hospitals paid on his future retirement benefits or was money he earned as benefits in past years, but didn't take home until 2007. The hospitals also contributed $251,725 to his employee benefit plan as part of the $624,562 total.

The top docs

Four of the five highest-paid doctors at St. Luke's Boise or Meridian are urologists. Dr. Nick Harper is a neonatologist. All of the totals include compensation, benefits and deferred compensation, which is money the doctors are getting this year after earning it in previous years:

Dr. William A. Jones, $1.16 million

Dr. Timothy A. Welebir, $1.1 million

Dr. Larry Tansey, $758,171

Dr. Avery Seifert, $728,231

Dr. Nick Harper, $572,523

Here are the five highest-paid oncologists at St. Luke's Mountain States Tumor Institute, which has12 locations in southwest Idaho and eastern Oregon:

Dr. Norman Zuckerman, $709,965

Dr. M. Beck, $697,517

Dr. Paul G. Montgomery, $666,980

Dr. William H. Kreisle, $634,754

Dr. Jonathan Swerdloff, $558,187

Note: The dollar amounts reflect compensation, contributions to employee benefit plans and deferred compensation, which was earned in previous years but collected in 2007.

Source: Internal Revenue Service documents