Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Virginia · Ohio · Kentucky · Ranked 11 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Bon Secours Mercy Health

John Starcher Jr JD, President & CEO, Bon Secours Mercy Health. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$12.8M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.77%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
14.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

§1The filing

Total revenue
$11,537,795,267
Total expenses
$11,229,979,856
Net assets
$7,363,233,450
Employees
61,966
Hospitals covered
32 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$86,906,907
Bad debt
$516,675,300
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($29,033,593)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$10,780,891
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$2,028,142
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$12,809,033 to John Starcher Jr JD

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, Bon Secours Mercy Health, EIN 52-1301088, 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)$436.6M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$86.9M (20%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($516.7M) 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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Bon Secours Mercy Health: CEO pay $12.8M, charity care 0.77% of expenses