Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Connecticut · Ranked 53 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Yale New Haven Hospital

Christopher O'Connor, CEO/Trustee (Vested Deferred). Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$5.0M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
2.64%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
4.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($3,964,082 of $4,968,969) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$4,883,266,662
Total expenses
$4,720,875,475
Net assets
$3,388,108,016
Employees
18,097
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$124,786,122
Bad debt
$79,730,000
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($102,814,220)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$3,964,082
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$1,004,887
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$4,968,969 to Christopher O'Connor

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, Yale New Haven Hospital, EIN 06-0646652, fiscal year ending 2025-09, 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)$587.5M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$124.8M (21%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($79.7M) 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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Yale New Haven Hospital: CEO pay $5.0M, charity care 2.64% of expenses