Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

District of Columbia · Ranked 566 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Howard University Hospital

Hugh E Mighty MD, Chief Executive Officer. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$673,070
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.40%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
15.1%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Hugh E Mighty MD’s pay of $673,070 equals 15.1 percent of the $4,453,863 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Most of the reported compensation ($626,609 of $673,070) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$308,161,000
Total expenses
$319,244,000
Net assets
$10,290,226
Employees
2,188
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$4,453,863
Bad debt
$20,832,361
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($28,324,297)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$626,609
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$46,461
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$673,070 to Hugh E Mighty 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, Howard University Hospital, EIN 87-3454381, 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)$112.6M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$4.5M (4%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($20.8M) 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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Howard University Hospital: CEO pay $673,070, charity care 1.40% of expenses