Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Louisiana · Ranked 805 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Desoto Hospital Association Inc dba Desoto Regional Health System

Todd Eppler, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$356,073
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.63%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
148.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Todd Eppler’s reported compensation was $356,073. The system’s charity care for the same year was $239,782. One person’s reported compensation was 1.5 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$40,417,646
Total expenses
$37,783,622
Net assets
$37,194,534
Employees
320
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$239,782
Bad debt
$3,083,137
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($75,615)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$329,415
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$26,658
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$356,073 to Todd Eppler

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, Desoto Hospital Association Inc dba Desoto Regional Health System, EIN 72-0500565, 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)$239,782 Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$239,782 (100%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($3.1M) 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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Desoto Hospital Association Inc dba Desoto Regional Health System: CEO pay $356,073, charity care 0.63% of expenses