Wisconsin · Not ranked: see note below.

Ascension Ne Wisconsin

Michael Bergman, President - St. Elizabeth Campus. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$678,449

CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F

0.65%

of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a

26.9%

CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Michael Bergman’s pay of $678,449 equals 26.9 percent of the $2,519,668 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Not in the ranking because the chief executive could not be identified from the filing with confidence. The figures below are shown as filed.

§1The filing

Total revenue: $402,276,177
Total expenses: $386,784,582
Net assets: $213,012,903
Employees: 1,754
Hospitals covered: 2 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net: $2,519,668
Bad debt: $5,415,294
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed: ($2,806,357)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D): $623,782
From related organizations (col. E): $0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F): $54,667
CEO total compensation (D+E+F): $678,449 to Michael Bergman

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, Ascension Ne Wisconsin, EIN 39-0816818, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: president title multiple.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$13.4M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$2.5M (19%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($5.4M) 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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Ascension Ne Wisconsin reported $678,449 in compensation for chief executive Michael Bergman in the fiscal year ending 2025-06. It spent 0.65% of expenses on charity care, $2,519,668. Source: its own IRS Form 990. https://everythingisbroken.org/reports/hospital-ceo-pay/system/ascension-ne-wisconsin-inc-39-0816818.html