Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Michigan · Ranked 28 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Henry Ford Health

Robert G Riney, Director/ President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$7.1M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.52%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
5.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: Steven N Kalkanis MD, CEO-Hfmg, $2,905,207; Denise Brooks-Williams, CEO Markets, $2,402,909; Michael A Genord MD, CEO - Hap, $2,051,756; David F Shepherd, CEO - Community Care Svc, $1,306,957. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$9,770,518,928
Total expenses
$9,388,791,675
Net assets
$4,145,973,379
Employees
48,938
Hospitals covered
15 facilities across 10 filings
Charity care, net
$142,682,430
Bad debt
$223,537,967
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($358,496,139)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$7,019,469
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$61,705
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$7,081,174 to Robert G Riney

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, Henry Ford Health, EIN 38-1357020, fiscal year ending 2024-12, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: ceo title multiple.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$579.7M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$142.7M (25%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($223.5M) 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
Henry Ford Health System38-13570202024-12$5.3B$52.8M1.08%990
Henry Ford Health St John Hospital38-13590632025-06$1.1B$17.2M1.59%990
Henry Ford Health Providence Hospital38-13582122025-06$1.0B$21.7M2.20%990
Henry Ford Macomb Hospital Corporation38-29476572024-12$651.6M$8.1M1.29%990
Henry Ford Health Macomb Oakland Hospital38-33221092025-06$496.2M$15.3M3.06%990
Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital38-27918232024-12$470.3M$9.2M2.19%990
Henry Ford Health Genesys Hospital38-23778212025-06$388.2M$8.7M2.03%990
Henry Ford Health Rochester Hospital38-13592472025-06$298.2M$8.7M2.89%990
Henry Ford Health River District Hospital38-31605642025-06$19.3M$884,5092.93%990
Henry Ford Health Brighton Center for Recovery38-15766802025-06$13.9M990

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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Henry Ford Health: CEO pay $7.1M, charity care 1.52% of expenses