Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Massachusetts · Ranked 240 of 1033 by CEO pay.

South Shore Hospital

Allen Smith MD, President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$1.7M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.59%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
30.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Allen Smith MD’s pay of $1,671,392 equals 30.7 percent of the $5,443,419 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$922,456,045
Total expenses
$915,926,753
Net assets
$371,160,127
Employees
6,697
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$5,443,419
Bad debt
$25,520,250
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($21,352,399)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$1,489,491
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$181,901
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,671,392 to Allen Smith MD

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, South Shore Hospital, EIN 04-2769210, fiscal year ending 2025-09, 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)$71.7M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$5.4M (8%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($25.5M) 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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South Shore Hospital: CEO pay $1.7M, charity care 0.59% of expenses