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 Lincoln

Smith Alan, Administrator. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$386,514
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
3.46%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
19.1%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Smith Alan’s pay of $386,514 equals 19.1 percent of the $2,021,561 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 ($359,280 of $386,514) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$66,093,739
Total expenses
$58,357,418
Net assets
$4,488,931
Employees
0
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$2,021,561
Bad debt
$1,483,417
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($120,720)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$359,280
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$27,234
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$386,514 to Smith Alan

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 Lincoln, EIN 47-2219204, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: administrator title multiple.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$2.0M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$2.0M (99%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($1.5M) 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 Lincoln: CEO pay $386,514, charity care 3.46% of expenses