Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Vermont · Ranked 746 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hosp

Shawn Tester, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$426,214
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.81%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
38.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Shawn Tester’s pay of $426,214 equals 38.0 percent of the $1,121,123 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$137,169,205
Total expenses
$137,717,185
Net assets
$62,323,107
Employees
816
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$1,121,123
Bad debt
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$389,415
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$36,799
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$426,214 to Shawn Tester

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, Northeastern Vermont Regional Hosp, EIN 03-6013761, 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)$22.7M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$1.1M (5%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt () 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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Northeastern Vermont Regional Hosp: CEO pay $426,214, charity care 0.81% of expenses