Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Maine · Not ranked: see note below.

Central Maine Medical Center

Steve Littleson, President. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$1.1M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.92%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
18.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Steve Littleson’s pay of $1,090,693 equals 18.0 percent of the $6,052,793 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

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 ($841,476 of $1,090,693) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$660,624,385
Total expenses
$658,025,116
Net assets
$165,544,524
Employees
3,335
Hospitals covered
3 facilities across 3 filings
Charity care, net
$6,052,793
Bad debt
$46,817,989
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($12,454,573)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$841,476
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$249,217
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,090,693 to Steve Littleson

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, Central Maine Medical Center, EIN 01-0211494, 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)$42.2M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$6.1M (14%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($46.8M) 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
Central Maine Medical Center01-02114942025-06$547.5M$5.4M1.04%990
Bridgton Hospital01-01304272025-06$59.8M$432,2270.90%990
Rumford Hospital01-02152272025-06$53.3M$228,0130.49%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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Central Maine Medical Center: CEO pay $1.1M, charity care 0.92% of expenses