Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

Report No. 1 · Nonprofit Hospital Executive Pay vs Charity Care · Annual Report, 2026 edition

Nebraska · Iowa · Ranked 109 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Alegent Health - Bergan Mercy Health System

Tim Bricker, Ex-Officio Bm/ President & CEO Chi Health. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$2.9M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.46%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
9.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($2,600,816 of $2,889,751) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: Timothy Bricker, Ex-Officio Bm/ President & CEO Central Region, $2,889,751. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$2,168,074,761
Total expenses
$2,038,118,544
Net assets
$3,996,404,242
Employees
11,004
Hospitals covered
17 facilities across 10 filings
Charity care, net
$29,735,095
Bad debt
$93,133,607
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($74,246,458)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$2,600,816
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$288,935
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$2,889,751 to Tim Bricker

Medicare surplus (shortfall) is Schedule H Part III line 7: Medicare revenue minus the cost of Medicare care. A figure in parentheses is a shortfall. Like bad debt, it is not community benefit on the IRS form.

Source: Form 990, Alegent Health - Bergan Mercy Health System, EIN 47-0484764, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: ceo title.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$63.2M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$29.7M (47%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($93.1M) and Medicare shortfall are reported separately by the IRS and are not community benefit on the form.

§3Filings in this system

Filing entityEINFY endRevenueCharity care% of expensesFiling
Alegent Health - Bergan Mercy Health System47-04847642025-06$838.4M$16.6M2.13%990
Alegent Creighton Health47-07571642025-06$487.3M$3.0M0.60%990
Good Samaritan Hospital47-03797552025-06$228.5M$2.9M1.52%990
Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center47-03798362025-06$219.0M$3.2M1.55%990
Saint Francis Medical Center47-03766012025-06$169.5M$2.7M1.73%990
Nebraska Heart Hospital39-20319682025-06$89.3M$353,6250.41%990
St Mary's Community Hospital47-04436362025-06$50.0M$246,4740.59%990
Alegent Health-Community Memorial Hospital of Missouri Valley Iowa42-07765682025-06$40.8M$204,0290.54%990
Alegent Health-Mercy Hospital Corning Ia42-07825182025-06$27.9M$107,7710.45%990
Alegent Health-Memorial Hospital Schuyler47-03998532025-06$17.2M$389,4912.27%990

Every number on this page was copied from the filing linked above. If a figure is wrong, send the filing that contradicts it and the correction runs at the top of this page.

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Alegent Health - Bergan Mercy Health System: CEO pay $2.9M, charity care 1.46% of expenses