Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

North Dakota · Ranked 810 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Towner County Medical Center

Ben Bucher, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$350,144
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.26%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
778.1%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Ben Bucher’s reported compensation was $350,144. The system’s charity care for the same year was $45,000. One person’s reported compensation was 7.8 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$16,091,455
Total expenses
$17,404,213
Net assets
$6,632,971
Employees
149
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$45,000
Bad debt
$321,140
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($15,365)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$310,912
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$39,232
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$350,144 to Ben Bucher

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, Towner County Medical Center, EIN 45-0425948, 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)$1.0M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$45,000 (4%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($321,140) 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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Towner County Medical Center: CEO pay $350,144, charity care 0.26% of expenses