Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

North Dakota · Ranked 918 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Ashley Medical Center

Eric Heupel, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$239,626
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.05%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
3993.8%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Eric Heupel’s reported compensation was $239,626. The system’s charity care for the same year was $6,000. One person’s reported compensation was 39.9 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$10,818,150
Total expenses
$11,521,033
Net assets
$6,773,670
Employees
145
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$6,000
Bad debt
$411,947
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($426,690)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$181,113
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$58,513
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$239,626 to Eric Heupel

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, Ashley Medical Center, EIN 45-0255914, 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)$354,641 Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$6,000 (2%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($411,947) 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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Ashley Medical Center: CEO pay $239,626, charity care 0.05% of expenses