Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Colorado · Utah · Kansas · Not ranked: see note below.

Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado

Andrew Gaasch, President Mountain Region. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$2.4M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
4.23%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
1.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Not in the ranking because the chief executive could not be identified from the filing with confidence. The figures below are shown as filed.

Most of the reported compensation ($2,146,430 of $2,430,605) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: Peter Banko, Former CEO/President Mountain Region, $3,955,729. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$3,611,897,907
Total expenses
$3,821,385,440
Net assets
$2,966,839,553
Employees
17,084
Hospitals covered
19 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$161,481,762
Bad debt
$261,053,540
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($115,895,736)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$2,146,430
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$284,175
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$2,430,605 to Andrew Gaasch

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, Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado, EIN 84-0405257, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: president title.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$671.1M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$161.5M (24%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($261.1M) 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
Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado84-04052572025-06$3.4B$154.1M4.24%990
Commonspirit Kansas Inc48-05437212025-06$169.1M$7.4M4.02%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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Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado: CEO pay $2.4M, charity care 4.23% of expenses