Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Arizona · Ranked 292 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Flagstaff Medical Center

David Cheney, Nah President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$1.4M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
3.17%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
6.2%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($1,363,593 of $1,409,918) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$856,042,572
Total expenses
$715,316,878
Net assets
$1,083,227,514
Employees
0
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$22,695,451
Bad debt
$100,614,771
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$15,472,039
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$1,363,593
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$46,325
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,409,918 to David Cheney

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, Flagstaff Medical Center, EIN 86-0110232, 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)$117.5M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$22.7M (19%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($100.6M) 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
Flagstaff Medical Center86-01102322025-06$637.4M$15.3M2.92%990
Verde Valley Medical Center86-01008822025-06$218.7M$7.4M3.85%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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Flagstaff Medical Center: CEO pay $1.4M, charity care 3.17% of expenses