Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Mississippi · Ranked 542 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Kemper Cah

D Larkin Kennedy, CEO - Ochsner Rush Health. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$714,433
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.81%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
102.6%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, D Larkin Kennedy’s reported compensation was $714,433. The system’s charity care for the same year was $696,580. One person’s reported compensation was 1.0 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

Most of the reported compensation ($654,938 of $714,433) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$36,625,123
Total expenses
$38,465,205
Net assets
$1,735,696
Employees
0
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$696,580
Bad debt
$3,045,091
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($125,875)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$654,938
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$59,495
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$714,433 to D Larkin Kennedy

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, Kemper Cah, EIN 27-1757642, 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)$4.4M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$696,580 (16%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($3.0M) 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
Kemper Cah Inc27-17576422024-12$22.4M$297,9021.30%990
Scott Regional Medical Center Inc26-07923282024-12$14.2M$398,6782.55%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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Kemper Cah: CEO pay $714,433, charity care 1.81% of expenses