Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Kansas · Not ranked: see note below.

Mercy Specialty Hospital Southeast Kansas

Drinkwitz Jeremy, President, Mercy Joplin Communities And Board Memb. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$933,280
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.91%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
201.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Drinkwitz Jeremy’s reported compensation was $933,280. The system’s charity care for the same year was $463,281. One person’s reported compensation was 2.0 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

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 ($832,578 of $933,280) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$57,144,032
Total expenses
$51,043,252
Net assets
$78,879,983
Employees
15
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$463,281
Bad debt
$447,349
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($359,468)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$832,578
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$100,702
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$933,280 to Drinkwitz Jeremy

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 Specialty Hospital Southeast Kansas, EIN 84-3730625, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: president title.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$495,206 Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$463,281 (94%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($447,349) 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 Specialty Hospital Southeast Kansas84-37306252025-06$48.4M$362,9240.82%990
Mercy Hospital Columbus27-08420312025-06$8.7M$100,3571.46%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 Specialty Hospital Southeast Kansas: CEO pay $933,280, charity care 0.91% of expenses