Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Michigan · Ranked 85 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Bronson Methodist Hospital

Bill Manns, President And CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$3.6M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.36%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
53.3%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Bill Manns’s pay of $3,569,592 equals 53.3 percent of the $6,700,610 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Most of the reported compensation ($2,056,207 of $3,569,592) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,983,016,904
Total expenses
$1,856,685,277
Net assets
$1,377,444,999
Employees
8,718
Hospitals covered
4 facilities across 4 filings
Charity care, net
$6,700,610
Bad debt
$76,398,308
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$3,448,186
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$2,056,207
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$1,513,385
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$3,569,592 to Bill Manns

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, Bronson Methodist Hospital, EIN 38-1359087, 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)$61.1M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$6.7M (11%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($76.4M) 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
Bronson Methodist Hospital38-13590872024-12$1.5B$4.5M0.33%990
Bronson Battle Creek Hospital38-27767912024-12$372.8M$1.6M0.46%990
Bronson Lakeview Hospital38-13592182024-12$94.0M$319,4970.36%990
Bronson South Haven Hospital38-16767802024-12$47.9M$263,9790.57%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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Bronson Methodist Hospital: CEO pay $3.6M, charity care 0.36% of expenses