Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Illinois · Ranked 767 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Midwest Medical Center

Tracy Bauer, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$398,303
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.50%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
162.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Tracy Bauer’s reported compensation was $398,303. The system’s charity care for the same year was $245,139. One person’s reported compensation was 1.6 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$50,759,839
Total expenses
$49,192,243
Net assets
$11,734,375
Employees
324
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$245,139
Bad debt
$553,892
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($125,177)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$382,907
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$15,396
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$398,303 to Tracy Bauer

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, Midwest Medical Center, EIN 20-4560540, fiscal year ending 2025-09, 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)$1.4M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$245,139 (18%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($553,892) 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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Midwest Medical Center: CEO pay $398,303, charity care 0.50% of expenses