HCA chief's massive compensation just misses $50M club

HCA Holdings' Richard Bracken fell short of the $50 million CEO club, but not by much. Bracken, CEO of the USA's largest for-profit hospital operator, also known as Hospital Corporation of America, received compensation and pulled in gains from stock valued at about $48 million last year, HCA said in a Thursday proxy filing. That compares to 2011 compensation valued at about $5.7 million