Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Wisconsin · Ranked 666 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Mile Bluff Medical Center

Dara Bartels, President, CEO & Acting CFO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$514,130
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.54%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
75.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Dara Bartels’s pay of $514,130 equals 75.0 percent of the $685,501 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$126,897,296
Total expenses
$127,114,303
Net assets
$42,628,279
Employees
889
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$685,501
Bad debt
$2,471,371
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($2,672,918)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$461,679
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$52,451
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$514,130 to Dara Bartels

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, Mile Bluff Medical Center, EIN 39-0992883, 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)$3.8M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$685,501 (18%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($2.5M) 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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Mile Bluff Medical Center: CEO pay $514,130, charity care 0.54% of expenses