Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Tennessee · North Carolina · Ranked 239 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Erlanger Health

Jim Coleman, President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$1.7M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
5.69%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
1.8%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,706,744,482
Total expenses
$1,629,845,122
Net assets
$572,968,406
Employees
8,850
Hospitals covered
9 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$92,690,920
Bad debt
$377,994,019
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($419,701,724)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$1,635,521
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$36,507
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,672,028 to Jim Coleman

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, Erlanger Health, EIN 88-3616696, 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)$220.7M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$92.7M (42%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($378.0M) 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
Erlanger Health88-36166962025-06$1.6B$90.1M6.13%990
Murphy Medical Center Inc56-18442622025-06$83.1M$2.6M3.42%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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Erlanger Health: CEO pay $1.7M, charity care 5.69% of expenses