Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

California · Ranked 331 of 1033 by CEO pay.

USC Arcadia Hospital

Ikenna Mmeje, Director/President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$1.3M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.42%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
66.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Ikenna Mmeje’s pay of $1,275,049 equals 66.5 percent of the $1,918,576 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Most of the reported compensation ($1,197,471 of $1,275,049) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$400,961,247
Total expenses
$453,379,797
Net assets
$444,540,197
Employees
1,552
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$1,918,576
Bad debt
$2,639,507
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($51,774,117)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$1,197,471
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$77,578
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,275,049 to Ikenna Mmeje

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, USC Arcadia Hospital, EIN 95-1643336, 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)$57.2M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$1.9M (3%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($2.6M) 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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USC Arcadia Hospital: CEO pay $1.3M, charity care 0.42% of expenses