Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

New York · Ranked 349 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Crouse Health Hospital

Seth Kronenberg MD, President And CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$1.2M
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
69.1%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Seth Kronenberg MD’s pay of $1,188,665 equals 69.1 percent of the $1,719,990 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: Kimberly Boynton, Former CEO, $1,200,000. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$586,649,728
Total expenses
$577,946,306
Net assets
$11,740,438
Employees
3,392
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$1,719,990
Bad debt
$12,308,722
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($2,065,517)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$844,667
From related organizations (col. E)
$281,556
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$62,442
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,188,665 to Seth Kronenberg MD

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, Crouse Health Hospital, EIN 16-0960470, fiscal year ending 2024-12, 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)$10.4M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$1.7M (17%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($12.3M) 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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Crouse Health Hospital: CEO pay $1.2M, charity care 0.30% of expenses