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Everything Is Broken

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

Texas · Ranked 651 of 1033 by CEO pay.

El Paso Children's Hospital

Cindy Stout, Chief Executive Officer. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$526,772
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
5.61%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
4.2%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

§1The filing

Total revenue
$255,288,851
Total expenses
$224,788,025
Net assets
$101,705,296
Employees
1,249
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$12,610,648
Bad debt
$6,451,569
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($38,863)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$486,111
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$40,661
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$526,772 to Cindy Stout

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, El Paso Children's Hospital, EIN 26-3075429, 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)$37.2M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$12.6M (34%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($6.5M) 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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El Paso Children's Hospital: CEO pay $526,772, charity care 5.61% of expenses