Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Oregon · Ranked 257 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Asante

Tom Gessel, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$1.6M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.39%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
8.6%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: Scott Kelly, Former CEO, $1,049,109. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,468,446,258
Total expenses
$1,332,637,858
Net assets
$1,665,499,644
Employees
6,570
Hospitals covered
3 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$18,487,032
Bad debt
$14,688,209
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($90,265,970)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$1,522,287
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$64,434
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,586,721 to Tom Gessel

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, Asante, EIN 93-0223960, fiscal year ending 2025-09, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: ceo title multiple.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$142.0M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$18.5M (13%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($14.7M) and Medicare shortfall are reported separately by the IRS and are not community benefit on the form.

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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Asante: CEO pay $1.6M, charity care 1.39% of expenses