Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Nebraska · Ranked 616 of 1033 by CEO pay.

The Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital Association

Eric Barber, President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$596,242
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.62%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
42.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Eric Barber’s pay of $596,242 equals 42.5 percent of the $1,402,827 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$222,836,008
Total expenses
$224,698,683
Net assets
$172,555,664
Employees
1,348
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$1,402,827
Bad debt
$8,390,442
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($16,428,118)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$546,564
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$49,678
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$596,242 to Eric Barber

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, The Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital Association, EIN 47-0378779, 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)$14.3M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$1.4M (10%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($8.4M) 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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The Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital Association: CEO pay $596,242, charity care 0.62% of expenses