Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Kansas · Ranked 424 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Hays Medical Center

Edward Herrman, President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$993,531
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.10%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
328.1%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Edward Herrman’s reported compensation was $993,531. The system’s charity care for the same year was $302,817. One person’s reported compensation was 3.3 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$300,520,874
Total expenses
$299,589,796
Net assets
$182,423,659
Employees
1,880
Hospitals covered
3 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$302,817
Bad debt
$5,391,238
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($17,533,338)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$815,354
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$178,177
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$993,531 to Edward Herrman

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, Hays Medical Center, EIN 48-0559088, 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)$48.0M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$302,817 (1%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($5.4M) 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
Hays Medical Center Inc48-05590882025-06$278.3M$279,3790.10%990
Pawnee Valley Community Hospital Inc48-12532462025-06$22.2M$23,4380.12%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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Hays Medical Center: CEO pay $993,531, charity care 0.10% of expenses