Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Texas · Not ranked: see note below.

Covenant Health System

, chief executive. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.01%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
n/a
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Not in the ranking because the chief executive could not be identified from the filing with confidence. The figures below are shown as filed.

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: Joel Gilbertson, Division Chief Exec - Central, $2,829,815; Walter Cathey, President/CEO, $1,481,609. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$113,759,127
Total expenses
$115,571,834
Net assets
−$224,076,812
Employees
635
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$8,656
Bad debt
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($8,992,463)
CEO pay

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, Covenant Health System, EIN 75-2765566, fiscal year ending 2024-12, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: manual excluded.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$463,379 Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$8,656 (2%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt () 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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Covenant Health System: CEO pay , charity care 0.01% of expenses