Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Tennessee · Ranked 907 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Ridgeview Psychiatric Hospital & Center

Brian Buuck, Chief Executive Officer. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$250,931
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.67%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
68.2%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Brian Buuck’s pay of $250,931 equals 68.2 percent of the $368,066 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$23,612,830
Total expenses
$22,082,128
Net assets
$25,981,540
Employees
325
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$368,066
Bad debt
$599,348
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($86,102)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$227,593
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$23,338
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$250,931 to Brian Buuck

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 Psychiatric Hospital & Center, EIN 62-0579512, 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)$7.4M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$368,066 (5%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($599,348) 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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Ridgeview Psychiatric Hospital & Center: CEO pay $250,931, charity care 1.67% of expenses