Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Ohio · Florida · Ranked 16 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Cleveland Clinic

Tomislav Mihaljevic MD, Director, Pres, Chair, CEO - CCF. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$9.7M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
2.06%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
2.9%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: Haber MD Georges-Pascal, CEO Ccad, $2,589,546. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$17,206,708,633
Total expenses
$16,127,775,410
Net assets
$18,257,525,938
Employees
89,188
Hospitals covered
26 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$332,946,431
Bad debt
$531,564,610
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($97,895,726)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$7,650,847
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$2,058,305
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$9,709,152 to Tomislav Mihaljevic 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, Cleveland Clinic, EIN 91-2153073, fiscal year ending 2024-12, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: ceo title multiple.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$1.5B Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$332.9M (22%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($531.6M) 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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Cleveland Clinic: CEO pay $9.7M, charity care 2.06% of expenses