Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Missouri · Ranked 171 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Freeman Health System

Paula F Baker, President And CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-03.

$2.1M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.45%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
19.8%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Paula F Baker’s pay of $2,115,755 equals 19.8 percent of the $10,704,064 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$749,730,868
Total expenses
$736,588,256
Net assets
$638,968,286
Employees
5,106
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$10,704,064
Bad debt
$30,490,388
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($13,283,196)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$1,659,816
From related organizations (col. E)
$414,954
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$40,985
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$2,115,755 to Paula F Baker

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, Freeman Health System, EIN 43-1704371, fiscal year ending 2025-03, 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)$50.0M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$10.7M (21%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($30.5M) 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
Freeman Health System43-17043712025-03$709.6M$9.3M1.33%990
Freeman Neosho Hospital Inc43-12406292025-03$40.1M$1.4M4.16%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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Freeman Health System: CEO pay $2.1M, charity care 1.45% of expenses