Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Nebraska · Ranked 416 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Columbus Community Hospital

Michael Hansen, President/CEO/Secretary. Fiscal year ending 2025-04.

$1.0M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.30%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
196.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Michael Hansen’s reported compensation was $1,002,443. The system’s charity care for the same year was $511,570. One person’s reported compensation was 2.0 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$184,724,924
Total expenses
$170,473,359
Net assets
$219,147,855
Employees
1,096
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$511,570
Bad debt
$8,028,868
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($11,180,015)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$882,246
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$120,197
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,002,443 to Michael Hansen

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, Columbus Community Hospital, EIN 47-0542043, fiscal year ending 2025-04, 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)$7.9M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$511,570 (6%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($8.0M) 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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Columbus Community Hospital: CEO pay $1.0M, charity care 0.30% of expenses