Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

New Mexico · Ranked 775 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Taos Health Systems

James Kiser, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-05.

$387,513
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.53%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
72.8%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
James Kiser’s pay of $387,513 equals 72.8 percent of the $532,162 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$112,362,337
Total expenses
$101,174,713
Net assets
$40,290,116
Employees
560
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$532,162
Bad debt
$6,215,565
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($6,285,225)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$355,466
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$32,047
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$387,513 to James Kiser

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, Taos Health Systems, EIN 85-0289839, fiscal year ending 2025-05, 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)$3.7M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$532,162 (14%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($6.2M) 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.

§Share

Taos Health Systems: CEO pay $387,513, charity care 0.53% of expenses