Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Georgia · Ranked 272 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Piedmont Hospital

Patrick Battey, CEO & Board Member. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$1.5M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.54%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
6.1%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: Kevin Brown, Board Member & CEO, PHC, $4,428,574. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,871,280,799
Total expenses
$1,603,329,478
Net assets
$1,428,351,062
Employees
5,511
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$24,635,231
Bad debt
$13,142,035
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($32,608,740)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$1,472,146
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$37,373
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,509,519 to Patrick Battey

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, Piedmont Hospital, EIN 58-0566213, fiscal year ending 2025-06, 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)$54.8M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$24.6M (45%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($13.1M) 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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Piedmont Hospital: CEO pay $1.5M, charity care 1.54% of expenses