Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Tennessee · Ranked 139 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Michael Ugwueke, President/CEO/Board Member. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$2.4M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
4.59%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
2.4%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($2,373,965 of $2,444,821) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,968,551,184
Total expenses
$2,187,722,738
Net assets
$768,138,144
Employees
11,899
Hospitals covered
5 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$100,355,118
Bad debt
$30,739,720
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($30,098,713)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$2,373,965
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$70,856
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$2,444,821 to Michael Ugwueke

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, Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals, EIN 62-0479367, fiscal year ending 2024-12, 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)$257.6M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$100.4M (39%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($30.7M) 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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Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals: CEO pay $2.4M, charity care 4.59% of expenses