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Everything Is Broken

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

Georgia · Ranked 630 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Piedmont Walton Hospital

Blake Watts, CEO & Board Member. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$570,617
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
4.08%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
11.9%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

§1The filing

Total revenue
$167,495,086
Total expenses
$117,477,172
Net assets
$13,188,384
Employees
732
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$4,788,600
Bad debt
$1,408,555
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($29,740)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$523,257
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$47,360
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$570,617 to Blake Watts

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 Walton Hospital, EIN 82-4194264, fiscal year ending 2025-06, 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)$6.5M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$4.8M (73%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($1.4M) 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 Walton Hospital: CEO pay $570,617, charity care 4.08% of expenses