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 114 of 1033 by CEO pay.

The Nebraska Medical Center

James Linder MD, Chairman & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$2.8M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.91%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
12.1%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

§1The filing

Total revenue
$2,799,901,402
Total expenses
$2,523,478,632
Net assets
$1,724,775,836
Employees
11,764
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$22,913,470
Bad debt
$33,767,210
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($35,860,903)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$2,757,951
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$17,138
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$2,775,089 to James Linder 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, The Nebraska Medical Center, EIN 91-1858433, 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)$413.6M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$22.9M (6%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($33.8M) 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 Nebraska Medical Center: CEO pay $2.8M, charity care 0.91% of expenses