Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Wisconsin · Illinois · Ranked 6 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Mercyhealth

Javon Bea, President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

Context: FHN (Freeport Memorial Hospital, Freeport, Ill.) joined Mercyhealth on January 1, 2026 (Rock River Current, Dec. 31, 2025). Its figures are not included here because this filing (fiscal year ending June 2025) predates the merger. FHN appears on its own page.

$16.3M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.49%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
268.9%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Javon Bea’s reported compensation was $16,336,153. The system’s charity care for the same year was $6,074,993. One person’s reported compensation was 2.7 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,306,104,358
Total expenses
$1,245,168,746
Net assets
$788,014,102
Employees
7,463
Hospitals covered
6 facilities across 4 filings
Charity care, net
$6,074,993
Bad debt
$17,529,783
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($144,006,235)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$11,640,824
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$4,695,329
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$16,336,153 to Javon Bea

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, Mercyhealth, EIN 39-0816848, 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)$119.9M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$6.1M (5%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($17.5M) 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
Mercy Health System Corporation39-08168482025-06$769.8M$2.8M0.42%990
Javon Bea Hospital36-21678472025-06$458.1M$2.7M0.66%990
Mercy Crystal Lake Hospital and Medical Center Inc20-16730112025-06$50.1M$336,0160.61%990
Mercy Harvard Hospital Inc31-15518712025-06$28.1M$243,7090.88%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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Mercyhealth: CEO pay $16.3M, charity care 0.49% of expenses