Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Minnesota · Ranked 338 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Ridgeview Medical Center

Michael Phelps, President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$1.2M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.25%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
112.9%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Michael Phelps’s reported compensation was $1,224,841. The system’s charity care for the same year was $1,084,791. One person’s reported compensation was 1.1 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$446,232,023
Total expenses
$434,591,159
Net assets
$212,842,219
Employees
2,937
Hospitals covered
3 facilities across 3 filings
Charity care, net
$1,084,791
Bad debt
$5,445,338
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($48,596,316)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$1,131,592
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$93,249
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,224,841 to Michael Phelps

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, Ridgeview Medical Center, EIN 31-1667875, 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)$16.4M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$1.1M (7%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($5.4M) 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
Ridgeview Medical Center31-16678752024-12$407.1M$876,9750.22%990
Sibley Medical Center41-18019672024-12$25.0M$107,8830.61%990
Minnesota Valley Health Center Inc41-08376592024-12$14.2M$99,9330.81%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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Ridgeview Medical Center: CEO pay $1.2M, charity care 0.25% of expenses