Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Arizona · Ranked 86 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Phoenix Children's Hospital

Robert L Meyer, Director/President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$3.6M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.31%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
74.3%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Robert L Meyer’s pay of $3,558,771 equals 74.3 percent of the $4,788,677 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,736,932,091
Total expenses
$1,538,377,122
Net assets
$1,706,137,565
Employees
9,270
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$4,788,677
Bad debt
$354,587
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($6,296,755)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$3,532,157
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$26,614
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$3,558,771 to Robert L Meyer

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, Phoenix Children's Hospital, EIN 86-0422559, 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)$85.3M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$4.8M (6%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($354,587) 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.

§Share

Phoenix Children's Hospital: CEO pay $3.6M, charity care 0.31% of expenses