Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Ohio · Ranked 59 of 1033 by CEO pay.

University Hospitals Health System Inc

Cliff Megerian MD, Chief Executive. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$4.4M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.23%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
6.1%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($4,389,348 of $4,448,841) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$5,946,385,392
Total expenses
$5,896,018,591
Net assets
$2,316,986,945
Employees
33,691
Hospitals covered
16 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$72,478,222
Bad debt
$139,165,109
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($65,368,399)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$4,389,348
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$59,493
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$4,448,841 to Cliff Megerian 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, University Hospitals Health System Inc, EIN 90-0059117, fiscal year ending 2024-12, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: manual override.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$510.6M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$72.5M (14%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($139.2M) 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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University Hospitals Health System Inc: CEO pay $4.4M, charity care 1.23% of expenses