Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Minnesota · Ranked 804 of 1033 by CEO pay.

United Hospital District

Richard Ash, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$359,067
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.99%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
68.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Richard Ash’s pay of $359,067 equals 68.5 percent of the $524,000 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$54,799,772
Total expenses
$53,002,889
Net assets
$43,647,346
Employees
327
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$524,000
Bad debt
$1,700,782
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($35,046)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$311,479
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$47,588
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$359,067 to Richard Ash

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, United Hospital District, EIN 45-4165628, 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)$5.7M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$524,000 (9%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($1.7M) 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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United Hospital District: CEO pay $359,067, charity care 0.99% of expenses