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Greater Baltimore Medical Center

John B Chessare MD, Director/CEO Gbmc Healthcare. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$1.2M

CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F

0.65%

of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a

26.5%

CEO pay as a share of all charity care

John B Chessare MD’s pay of $1,172,384 equals 26.5 percent of the $4,421,094 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue: $674,638,318
Total expenses: $678,549,032
Net assets: $395,421,034
Employees: 4,639
Hospitals covered: 1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net: $4,421,094
Bad debt: $13,928,682
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed: $29,759,467
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D): $1,139,114
From related organizations (col. E): $0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F): $33,270
CEO total compensation (D+E+F): $1,172,384 to John B Chessare MD

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, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, EIN 52-6049658, 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)$76.2M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$4.4M (6%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($13.9M) 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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Greater Baltimore Medical Center reported $1,172,384 in compensation for chief executive John B Chessare MD in the fiscal year ending 2025-06. It spent 0.65% of expenses on charity care, $4,421,094. Source: its own IRS Form 990. https://everythingisbroken.org/reports/hospital-ceo-pay/system/greater-baltimore-medical-center-inc-52-6049658.html