Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

South Dakota · Ranked 817 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Wagner Community Memorial Hospital

Bryan Slaba, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$343,257
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
2.09%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
84.8%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Bryan Slaba’s pay of $343,257 equals 84.8 percent of the $404,800 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$22,519,207
Total expenses
$19,328,288
Net assets
$19,616,064
Employees
140
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$404,800
Bad debt
$330,181
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($28,931)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$297,701
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$45,556
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$343,257 to Bryan Slaba

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, Wagner Community Memorial Hospital, EIN 46-0226283, 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)$1.6M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$404,800 (25%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($330,181) 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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Wagner Community Memorial Hospital: CEO pay $343,257, charity care 2.09% of expenses