Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Maine · Ranked 552 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Mainegeneral Health and Affiliates

Nathan Howell, President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$699,010
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
2.09%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
4.3%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($676,169 of $699,010) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$787,029,171
Total expenses
$769,580,666
Net assets
$317,098,239
Employees
0
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$16,120,275
Bad debt
$38,303,785
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($16,741,231)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$676,169
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$22,841
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$699,010 to Nathan Howell

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, Mainegeneral Health and Affiliates, EIN 32-0265031, fiscal year ending 2025-06, 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)$62.0M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$16.1M (26%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($38.3M) 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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Mainegeneral Health and Affiliates: CEO pay $699,010, charity care 2.09% of expenses