Cardinal Health CEO compensation more than doubles.

Medical supplier Cardinal Health Inc. paid Chairman and CEO R. Kerry Clark $9.7 million in total compensation in fiscal 2008, more than doubling his compensation from the year before, according to a regulatory filing.

Clark's 2008 pay package included $1.4 million in base salary and a $691,804 bonus, the company disclosed in a proxy filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The greatest share of Clark's pay increase came in the form of stock options and restricted stock valued at $7.4 million on the days they were granted. He received no such grants the year before.

He also received other compensation totaling $246,801, which included $169,095 for personal use of the company's aircraft.