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Pikeville Medical Center

William D Blackburn, Board Chair/President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$1.7M

CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F

0.51%

of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a

48.1%

CEO pay as a share of all charity care

William D Blackburn’s pay of $1,738,038 equals 48.1 percent of the $3,616,990 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: Aaron Crum MD, Ex-Officio/CMO/Asst CEO, $1,331,440. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue: $789,640,637
Total expenses: $706,641,708
Net assets: $480,825,901
Employees: 4,144
Hospitals covered: 1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net: $3,616,990
Bad debt: $8,956,572
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed: ($6,600,155)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D): $1,685,555
From related organizations (col. E): $0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F): $52,483
CEO total compensation (D+E+F): $1,738,038 to William D Blackburn

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, Pikeville Medical Center, EIN 61-0458376, fiscal year ending 2025-09, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: ceo title multiple.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$44.5M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$3.6M (8%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($9.0M) 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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Pikeville Medical Center reported $1,738,038 in compensation for chief executive William D Blackburn in the fiscal year ending 2025-09. It spent 0.51% of expenses on charity care, $3,616,990. Source: its own IRS Form 990. https://everythingisbroken.org/reports/hospital-ceo-pay/system/pikeville-medical-center-inc-61-0458376.html