Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Massachusetts · Ranked 587 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Austen Riggs Center

Eric M Plakun, Medical Director/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$648,320
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
4.93%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
49.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Eric M Plakun’s pay of $648,320 equals 49.0 percent of the $1,323,127 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$27,859,666
Total expenses
$26,860,501
Net assets
$61,369,106
Employees
186
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$1,323,127
Bad debt
$59,431
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$591,955
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$56,365
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$648,320 to Eric M Plakun

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, Austen Riggs Center, EIN 04-2103543, 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)$2.5M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$1.3M (54%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($59,431) 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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Austen Riggs Center: CEO pay $648,320, charity care 4.93% of expenses