Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

New York · Ranked 199 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Mercy Hospital of Buffalo

Joyce Markiewicz, President & CEO Admin. Ch. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$1.9M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.08%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
13.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($1,851,882 of $1,912,200) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,450,941,190
Total expenses
$1,308,752,703
Net assets
−$3,402,194
Employees
7,717
Hospitals covered
7 facilities across 4 filings
Charity care, net
$14,198,590
Bad debt
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$8,698,743
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$1,851,882
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$60,318
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,912,200 to Joyce Markiewicz

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 of Buffalo, EIN 16-0756336, fiscal year ending 2024-12, 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)$124.1M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$14.2M (11%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt () 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 Hospital of Buffalo16-07563362024-12$594.3M$4.7M0.79%990
Sisters of Charity Hospital16-07431872024-12$470.9M$5.7M1.30%990
Kenmore Mercy Hospital16-07628432024-12$225.4M$1.9M0.86%990
Mount St Mary's Hospital of Niagara Falls16-15233532024-12$160.3M$1.9M1.25%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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Mercy Hospital of Buffalo: CEO pay $1.9M, charity care 1.08% of expenses