Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

North Dakota · Ranked 828 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Linton Hospital

Lukas Fischer, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$332,242
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.19%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
772.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Lukas Fischer’s reported compensation was $332,242. The system’s charity care for the same year was $43,000. One person’s reported compensation was 7.7 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$23,143,886
Total expenses
$22,682,664
Net assets
$13,643,685
Employees
216
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$43,000
Bad debt
$503,147
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($210,611)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$277,910
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$54,332
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$332,242 to Lukas Fischer

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, Linton Hospital, EIN 45-0253272, fiscal year ending 2024-12, 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)$442,952 Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$43,000 (10%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($503,147) 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
Linton Hospital45-02532722024-12$11.6M$10,0000.08%990
Wishek Hospital Clinic Association45-03589862024-12$11.6M$33,0000.30%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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Linton Hospital: CEO pay $332,242, charity care 0.19% of expenses