Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Mississippi · Ranked 594 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Mississippi Baptist Medical Center

Bobbie K Ware, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$625,060
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
3.32%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
3.2%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($560,421 of $625,060) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$616,472,492
Total expenses
$596,808,210
Net assets
$94,951,771
Employees
3,387
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$19,787,024
Bad debt
$962,559
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($1,120,124)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$560,421
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$64,639
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$625,060 to Bobbie K Ware

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, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center, EIN 64-0881013, 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)$58.4M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$19.8M (34%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($962,559) 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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Mississippi Baptist Medical Center: CEO pay $625,060, charity care 3.32% of expenses