Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Illinois · Ranked 55 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Rush University System for Health

Omar B Lateef DO, President & Chief Executive Officer, Rush. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$4.8M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.20%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
17.1%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Omar B Lateef DO’s pay of $4,819,778 equals 17.1 percent of the $28,186,349 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$2,758,712,727
Total expenses
$2,347,044,424
Net assets
$3,295,855,783
Employees
15,611
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$28,186,349
Bad debt
$25,813,388
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($26,743,611)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$4,296,109
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$523,669
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$4,819,778 to Omar B Lateef DO

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, Rush University System for Health, EIN 36-2174823, 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)$443.5M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$28.2M (6%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($25.8M) 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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Rush University System for Health: CEO pay $4.8M, charity care 1.20% of expenses