Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Arizona · Ranked 877 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Benson Hospital

Gary Kartchner, Chief Executive Officer. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$279,822
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.89%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
67.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Gary Kartchner’s pay of $279,822 equals 67.0 percent of the $417,842 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$57,949,965
Total expenses
$47,034,025
Net assets
$51,850,923
Employees
407
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$417,842
Bad debt
$2,566,862
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$75,627
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$221,259
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$58,563
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$279,822 to Gary Kartchner

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, Benson Hospital, EIN 86-6007695, 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)$869,831 Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$417,842 (48%)

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.

§3Filings in this system

Filing entityEINFY endRevenueCharity care% of expensesFiling
Benson Hospital Corporation86-60076952024-12$33.2M$350,9781.31%990
Northern Cochise Community Hospital Inc86-02084512024-12$24.8M$66,8640.33%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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Benson Hospital: CEO pay $279,822, charity care 0.89% of expenses