Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Missouri · Not ranked: see note below.

Mercy Hospital Lebanon

Wyrsch MD Robert B, President, Mercy Clinic Springfield Comm & Bm. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$1.4M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
2.25%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
63.9%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Wyrsch MD Robert B’s pay of $1,403,619 equals 63.9 percent of the $2,195,471 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Not in the ranking because the chief executive could not be identified from the filing with confidence. The figures below are shown as filed.

Most of the reported compensation ($1,347,265 of $1,403,619) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$120,515,483
Total expenses
$97,392,955
Net assets
$23,253,837
Employees
0
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$2,195,471
Bad debt
$1,868,608
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$10,907,673
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$1,347,265
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$56,354
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,403,619 to Wyrsch MD Robert B

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, Mercy Hospital Lebanon, EIN 43-1767432, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: president title multiple.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$3.7M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$2.2M (59%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($1.9M) 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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Mercy Hospital Lebanon: CEO pay $1.4M, charity care 2.25% of expenses