Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Pennsylvania · Michigan · North Carolina · Virginia · Not ranked: see note below.

Duke Quality Network

Thomas A Owens MD, Director/President. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$1.9M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
70.65%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
4273.6%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Thomas A Owens MD’s reported compensation was $1,929,950. The system’s charity care for the same year was $45,160. One person’s reported compensation was 42.7 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

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

Most of the reported compensation ($1,853,877 of $1,929,950) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$0
Total expenses
$63,923
Net assets
$0
Employees
0
Hospitals covered
14 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$45,160
Bad debt
$0
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$326,418
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$1,853,877
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$76,073
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,929,950 to Thomas A Owens 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, Duke Quality Network, EIN 46-1340679, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: president title.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$824,474 Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$45,160 (5%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($0) 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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Duke Quality Network: CEO pay $1.9M, charity care 70.65% of expenses