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Everything Is Broken

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

North Carolina · Ranked 686 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Columbus Regional Healthcare System

W Jason Beck, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$496,263
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
2.90%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
12.1%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

§1The filing

Total revenue
$176,377,792
Total expenses
$141,653,079
Net assets
$220,601,601
Employees
811
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$4,101,981
Bad debt
$7,521,186
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($4,366,105)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$445,642
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$50,621
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$496,263 to W Jason Beck

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 Regional Healthcare System, EIN 56-0538020, fiscal year ending 2025-09, 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)$4.1M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$4.1M (100%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($7.5M) 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 Regional Healthcare System: CEO pay $496,263, charity care 2.90% of expenses