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 23 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Northwestern Medicine

Howard B Chrisman MD, Chief Executive. Fiscal year ending 2025-08.

$8.2M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.05%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
7.1%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

§1The filing

Total revenue
$11,241,795,455
Total expenses
$10,980,441,111
Net assets
$11,524,350,900
Employees
38,962
Hospitals covered
9 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$114,908,722
Bad debt
$60,235,509
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($1,046,436,770)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$7,491,303
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$682,758
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$8,174,061 to Howard B Chrisman MD

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, Northwestern Medicine, EIN 36-4724966, fiscal year ending 2025-08, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: manual override.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$731.4M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$114.9M (16%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($60.2M) 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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Northwestern Medicine: CEO pay $8.2M, charity care 1.05% of expenses