Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

North Dakota · Ranked 1025 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Cooperstown Medical Center

Nicole Lindsey, CEO/Administrator. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$72,929
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.77%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
96.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Nicole Lindsey’s pay of $72,929 equals 96.0 percent of the $76,000 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$9,989,983
Total expenses
$9,885,006
Net assets
$4,109,955
Employees
77
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$76,000
Bad debt
$278,110
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($21,462)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$61,197
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$11,732
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$72,929 to Nicole Lindsey

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, Cooperstown Medical Center, EIN 45-0227753, fiscal year ending 2025-06, 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)$316,148 Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$76,000 (24%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($278,110) 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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Cooperstown Medical Center: CEO pay $72,929, charity care 0.77% of expenses