Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Pennsylvania · Ranked 327 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Lancaster General Hospital

John J Herman, CEO Lg Health. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$1.3M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.66%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
11.8%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($1,153,506 of $1,288,283) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,840,325,876
Total expenses
$1,654,041,736
Net assets
$823,219,712
Employees
8,895
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$10,950,778
Bad debt
$40,212,000
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($156,610,089)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$1,153,506
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$134,777
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,288,283 to John J Herman

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, Lancaster General Hospital, EIN 23-1365353, 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)$116.3M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$11.0M (9%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($40.2M) 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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Lancaster General Hospital: CEO pay $1.3M, charity care 0.66% of expenses