McKesson Corp. cut CEO JohnHammergren's pay by about 10 percent following a shareholder revoltspurred by claims about the healthcare firm's alleged role in thenation's opioid crisis.The International Brotherhood of Teamstersled a vote-no campaign in 2017 against the firm's executive payplan after accusing the drug distributor of aggravating the opioidepidemic. Last year's pay package received 26.6 percent support,the second-lowest to date and among the worst of S&P 500companies.The board responded by trimming Hammergren's totalreported pay for fiscal 2018 by $1.95 million, changing incentiveplan metrics and agreeing to weigh “compliance risk related toopioid distribution” when making compensation decisions, the SanFrancisco-based company said Friday in a regulatoryfiling.Hammergren, 59, received a reported pay package of $18.1million for the last fiscal year, including a $1.68 million salary,a $3.48 million cash bonus, a long-term cash payout of $570,000 andequity awards of $11.8 million. He forfeited a $7.32 million targetperformance award from 2016 after the firm posted returns thattrailed those of the S&P 500 Health Care Sector Index over thepast three years.Shareholders will vote on the pay package at thefirm's annual meeting July 25.

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