Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Wisconsin · Minnesota · Iowa · Ranked 301 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center

Scott Rathgaber MD, Board Of Trustees, Chairman, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$1.4M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.14%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
4.3%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($1,324,275 of $1,397,550) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$3,053,542,869
Total expenses
$2,863,279,267
Net assets
$3,167,860,488
Employees
7,984
Hospitals covered
10 facilities across 10 filings
Charity care, net
$32,519,766
Bad debt
$27,757,959
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($74,917,154)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$1,324,275
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$73,275
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,397,550 to Scott Rathgaber 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, Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center, EIN 39-0813416, fiscal year ending 2025-09, 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)$142.4M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$32.5M (23%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($27.8M) 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
Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center Inc39-08134162025-09$1.7B$22.6M1.45%990
Bellin Memorial Hospital Inc39-08844782025-09$906.6M$5.0M0.58%990
Oconto Hospital and Medical Center06-17453972025-09$101.5M$461,6890.50%990
Saint Elizabeth's Hospital of Wabasha41-06938772025-09$58.7M$342,3780.64%990
St Joseph's Health Services Inc39-09295382025-09$51.1M$685,4291.59%990
Palmer Lutheran Health Center Inc42-13207632025-09$51.0M$1.4M3.06%990
Tri-County Memorial Hospital Inc39-07045102025-09$45.1M$625,9011.51%990
Moundview Memorial Hospital & Clinics39-09440122025-09$40.2M$666,7201.76%990
Memorial Hospital of Boscobel39-08455902025-09$38.7M$437,5381.27%990
Bellin Psychiatric Center39-16576272025-07$28.9M$333,4071.17%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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Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center: CEO pay $1.4M, charity care 1.14% of expenses