Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Georgia · Ranked 579 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Union County Hospital Authority

Kevin L Bierschenk, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-04.

$656,935
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.24%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
174.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Kevin L Bierschenk’s reported compensation was $656,935. The system’s charity care for the same year was $376,444. One person’s reported compensation was 1.7 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$171,488,711
Total expenses
$156,363,842
Net assets
$220,039,081
Employees
1,595
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$376,444
Bad debt
$4,569,442
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$1,725,915
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$634,152
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$22,783
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$656,935 to Kevin L Bierschenk

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, Union County Hospital Authority, EIN 58-6025393, fiscal year ending 2025-04, 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)$405,470 Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$376,444 (93%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($4.6M) and Medicare shortfall are reported separately by the IRS and are not community benefit on the form.

§3Filings in this system

Filing entityEINFY endRevenueCharity care% of expensesFiling
Union County Hospital Authority58-60253932025-04$136.1M$328,6200.27%990
Chatuge Regional Hospital Inc58-25139012025-04$35.4M$47,8240.14%990

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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Union County Hospital Authority: CEO pay $656,935, charity care 0.24% of expenses