Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Arizona · California · Nevada · Ranked 7 of 1033 by CEO pay.

CommonSpirit Health (Dignity)

Wright L Lassiter III, Chief Executive Officer. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$14.2M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.68%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
5.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: Terika Richardson MPH FACHE, Chair/ President & CEO, $8,345,090; Jon Van Boening, Former Ke, $2,784,633. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$15,658,881,953
Total expenses
$14,895,265,808
Net assets
$13,542,105,119
Employees
68,813
Hospitals covered
41 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$249,813,042
Bad debt
$66,751,084
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($355,072,865)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$14,076,171
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$99,148
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$14,175,319 to Wright L Lassiter III

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, CommonSpirit Health (Dignity), EIN 94-1196203, 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)$1.6B Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$249.8M (15%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($66.8M) and Medicare shortfall are reported separately by the IRS and are not community benefit on the form.

§3Filings in this system

Filing entityEINFY endRevenueCharity care% of expensesFiling
Dignity Health94-11962032025-06$11.6B$182.3M1.66%990
Dignity Community Care81-50094882025-06$4.0B$67.5M1.72%990

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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CommonSpirit Health (Dignity): CEO pay $14.2M, charity care 1.68% of expenses