Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Kansas · Ranked 901 of 1033 by CEO pay.

West Central Kansas Association

David Caudill, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-07.

$255,258
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.55%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
197.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, David Caudill’s reported compensation was $255,258. The system’s charity care for the same year was $129,103. One person’s reported compensation was 2.0 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$22,576,132
Total expenses
$23,401,861
Net assets
$6,816
Employees
229
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$129,103
Bad debt
$732,272
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($31,218)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$227,519
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$27,739
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$255,258 to David Caudill

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, West Central Kansas Association, EIN 74-2842747, fiscal year ending 2025-07, 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)$2.2M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$129,103 (6%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($732,272) 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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West Central Kansas Association: CEO pay $255,258, charity care 0.55% of expenses