Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Louisiana · Ranked 454 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Christus Health Central Louisiana

Monte A Wilson, Chief Executive Officer/President. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$917,255
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
2.12%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
10.1%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($852,382 of $917,255) 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: Christopher Karam, SVP/Regional Chief Executive Officer, $1,379,979. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$471,326,798
Total expenses
$427,218,325
Net assets
$181,485,377
Employees
2,496
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$9,057,426
Bad debt
$8,693,464
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$3,015,337
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$852,382
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$64,873
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$917,255 to Monte A Wilson

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, Christus Health Central Louisiana, EIN 72-0408984, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: ceo title multiple.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$17.9M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$9.1M (51%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($8.7M) 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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Christus Health Central Louisiana: CEO pay $917,255, charity care 2.12% of expenses