Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

North Carolina · South Carolina · Ranked 24 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Novant Health

Carl Armato, Trustee, Pres/CEO NH. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$8.2M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.40%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
7.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

§1The filing

Total revenue
$8,103,566,392
Total expenses
$7,758,793,041
Net assets
$3,871,405,633
Employees
41,919
Hospitals covered
13 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$108,587,243
Bad debt
$247,558,652
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($36,568,092)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$6,943,831
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$1,207,106
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$8,150,937 to Carl Armato

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, Novant Health, EIN 56-1376950, fiscal year ending 2024-12, 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)$217.8M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$108.6M (50%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($247.6M) and Medicare shortfall are reported separately by the IRS and are not community benefit on the form.

§3Filings in this system

Filing entityEINFY endRevenueCharity care% of expensesFiling
Novant Health Inc56-13769502024-12$6.5B$80.0M1.29%990
Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc56-09280892024-12$1.6B$28.6M1.82%990

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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Novant Health: CEO pay $8.2M, charity care 1.40% of expenses