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Everything Is Broken

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

Wisconsin · Ranked 708 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Sauk Prairie Healthcare

Shawn Lerch, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$466,803
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.63%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
55.1%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Shawn Lerch’s pay of $466,803 equals 55.1 percent of the $847,710 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$136,752,000
Total expenses
$134,023,779
Net assets
$98,026,787
Employees
869
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$847,710
Bad debt
$2,336,715
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($7,200,981)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$410,129
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$56,674
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$466,803 to Shawn Lerch

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, Sauk Prairie Healthcare, EIN 39-0872080, 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)$10.1M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$847,710 (8%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($2.3M) 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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Sauk Prairie Healthcare: CEO pay $466,803, charity care 0.63% of expenses