Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Texas · Ranked 35 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Memorial Hermann Health System

David L Callender MD, CEO/President. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$6.1M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
4.19%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
1.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: Paul C O'Sullivan, SVP, CEO- Mc & Gh, $1,417,542; Justin P Kendrick, SVP, CEO - Ne & Tw, $1,289,638; Malisha S Patel, SVP, CEO - Sw & Sl, $1,247,019; Anne E Neeson, EVP, CEO - Foundation, $1,143,076. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$8,563,610,095
Total expenses
$8,330,178,323
Net assets
$9,717,530,239
Employees
36,368
Hospitals covered
14 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$349,212,453
Bad debt
$504,995,685
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($205,794,420)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$5,438,998
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$622,096
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$6,061,094 to David L Callender MD

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, Memorial Hermann Health System, EIN 74-1152597, 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)$530.6M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$349.2M (66%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($505.0M) 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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Memorial Hermann Health System: CEO pay $6.1M, charity care 4.19% of expenses