Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Montana · Ranked 508 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital

Kathryn Bertany, Director & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$798,114
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.45%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
8.1%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($628,654 of $798,114) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$727,936,328
Total expenses
$680,580,956
Net assets
$487,547,885
Employees
3,483
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$9,850,778
Bad debt
$20,783,933
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($9,722,917)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$628,654
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$169,460
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$798,114 to Kathryn Bertany

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, Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital, EIN 47-4717998, 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)$51.0M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$9.9M (19%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($20.8M) 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
Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital47-47179982024-12$534.7M$8.9M1.81%990
Bozeman Deaconess Health Services81-02321212024-12$193.2M$993,2580.52%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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Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital: CEO pay $798,114, charity care 1.45% of expenses