Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

North Dakota · Ranked 942 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Good Samaritan Hospital Association

Erik Christenson, Secretary - CEO. Fiscal year ending 2026-03.

$221,384
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.27%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
45.2%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Erik Christenson’s pay of $221,384 equals 45.2 percent of the $490,000 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$39,300,907
Total expenses
$38,537,397
Net assets
$28,955,343
Employees
334
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$490,000
Bad debt
$465,128
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($412,947)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$169,448
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$51,936
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$221,384 to Erik Christenson

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, Good Samaritan Hospital Association, EIN 45-0226419, fiscal year ending 2026-03, 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)$1.5M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$490,000 (33%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($465,128) 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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Good Samaritan Hospital Association: CEO pay $221,384, charity care 1.27% of expenses