Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Kansas · Not ranked: see note below.

Ascension Via Christi Hospital Manhattan

Robert C Copple, Ex-Officio/President. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$497,485
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.97%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
20.2%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Robert C Copple’s pay of $497,485 equals 20.2 percent of the $2,461,357 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
$129,272,003
Total expenses
$124,784,970
Net assets
$57,925,074
Employees
807
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$2,461,357
Bad debt
$1,955,208
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$1,846,934
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$442,197
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$55,288
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$497,485 to Robert C Copple

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 Via Christi Hospital Manhattan, EIN 48-1186704, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: president title.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$5.1M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$2.5M (49%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($2.0M) 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
Ascension Via Christi Hospital Manhattan Inc48-11867042025-06$108.1M$2.1M1.96%990
Wamego Hospital Association72-15264002025-06$21.2M$355,0302.02%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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Ascension Via Christi Hospital Manhattan: CEO pay $497,485, charity care 1.97% of expenses