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 807 of 1033 by CEO pay.

St Joseph's Area Health Services

Benjamin Koppelman, President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$353,936
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.14%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
62.9%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Benjamin Koppelman’s pay of $353,936 equals 62.9 percent of the $562,696 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Most of the reported compensation ($296,249 of $353,936) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$52,660,685
Total expenses
$49,178,500
Net assets
$122,165,788
Employees
282
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$562,696
Bad debt
$855,454
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($5,808,185)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$296,249
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$57,687
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$353,936 to Benjamin Koppelman

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, St Joseph's Area Health Services, EIN 41-0695603, 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)$3.5M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$562,696 (16%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($855,454) 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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St Joseph's Area Health Services: CEO pay $353,936, charity care 1.14% of expenses