Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Minnesota · Ranked 691 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Astera Health

Joel Beiswenger, CEO, President. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$486,632
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.22%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
219.1%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Joel Beiswenger’s reported compensation was $486,632. The system’s charity care for the same year was $222,144. One person’s reported compensation was 2.2 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$102,360,860
Total expenses
$101,071,489
Net assets
$54,393,377
Employees
542
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$222,144
Bad debt
$2,604,073
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($190,540)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$441,176
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$45,456
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$486,632 to Joel Beiswenger

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, Astera Health, EIN 41-0713913, fiscal year ending 2024-12, 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)$11.3M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$222,144 (2%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($2.6M) 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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Astera Health: CEO pay $486,632, charity care 0.22% of expenses