Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Kansas · Ranked 938 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Ninnescah Valley Health Systems

Preston Sauers, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-04.

$225,046
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.21%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
496.6%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Preston Sauers’s reported compensation was $225,046. The system’s charity care for the same year was $45,318. One person’s reported compensation was 5.0 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$22,317,847
Total expenses
$21,656,584
Net assets
$10,430,131
Employees
195
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$45,318
Bad debt
$922,661
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($2,938,512)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$206,358
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$18,688
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$225,046 to Preston Sauers

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, Ninnescah Valley Health Systems, EIN 48-0761700, fiscal year ending 2025-04, 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)$199,953 Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$45,318 (23%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($922,661) 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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Ninnescah Valley Health Systems: CEO pay $225,046, charity care 0.21% of expenses