Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Minnesota · Ranked 520 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Lake Region Healthcare

Kent Mattson, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$770,088
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.45%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
84.8%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Kent Mattson’s pay of $770,088 equals 84.8 percent of the $908,000 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$203,427,197
Total expenses
$200,313,189
Net assets
$119,992,667
Employees
1,088
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$908,000
Bad debt
$6,258,253
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($396,070)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$685,803
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$84,285
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$770,088 to Kent Mattson

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, Lake Region Healthcare, EIN 41-0730602, 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)$13.3M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$908,000 (7%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($6.3M) 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
Lake Region Healthcare Corporation41-07306022025-09$178.7M$783,0000.46%990
Prairie Ridge Hospital and Health Services Inc41-17639682025-09$24.7M$125,0000.56%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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Lake Region Healthcare: CEO pay $770,088, charity care 0.45% of expenses