Baltimore 

(Contacted each entity for comment and recent 990s)

 

1. Johns Hopkins Medicine 

• $5.2 billion net assets in 2021  source
• $3.8 billion in 2020, $4.1 billion in 2019

Kevin W. Sowers, President of the Johns Hopkins Health System; Executive Vice President of Johns Hopkins Medicine, earned $2.2 million in 2019.

Another 15 executives and other highly-paid employees made over $1 million. Source

Johns Hopkins Medicine’s facilities received almost $500 million in federal Covid aid, according to the Covid Stimulus Watch project.

This NPR project from Dec. 2022 surveyed hospitals to see how they handle unpaid bills.

HOSPITAL COLLECTION POLICIES:

• Credit reporting: not allowed
• Selling patient debt: not allowed
• Denying care: not allowed
• Legal action: not allowed

However, this article from July 2019 details how Johns Hopkins Hospital has filed more than 2,400 lawsuits (since 2009) against patients for unpaid medical bills. Another article from The Baltimore Sun on the same lawsuits.

 

2. University of Maryland Medical System 

• $3.3 billion in net assets in 2021 Source
• $2.8 billion in net assets in 2020
• $2.7 billion in net assets in 2019

President/CEO Dr. Mohan Suntha made $3.4 million in 2020. source

Three other executives made $1 million or more; and another 17 executives made $500,000 or more.

University of Maryland Medical System’s facilities received $700 million in federal Covid aid, according to the Covid Stimulus Watch project.

This NPR project from Dec. 2022 surveyed hospitals to see how they handle unpaid bills.

HOSPITAL COLLECTION POLICIES:

• Credit reporting: allowed
• Selling patient debt: not allowed
• Denying care: not allowed
• Legal action: allowed

We did not find any other reports about the hospital suing patients for unpaid bills.

 

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL REPONSE:

The University of Maryland Medical System is an anchor institution in the State of Maryland and we take a measured and purposeful approach to compensation at every level of our System. We have no shareholders, distribute no profits, and instead re-invest income into delivering care to communities and patients across Maryland.

UMMS routinely reviews compensation for all team members, including executives, to ensure that pay scales are consistent with market rates and appropriate for a private not-for-profit academic health system that accepts 330,000 emergency visits and admits over 100,000 patients annually.  

We are at all times careful stewards of our financial resources and take our role as an anchor institution seriously by continually investing in our communities, our care facilities, our 30,000 team members and patients most in need of compassionate care.

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated significant change in our approach to compensation, including a decision not to furlough or layoff any team members in the early months of the pandemic, and our later investments of over $100 million in additional compensation for UMMS team members, including permanent pay raises, bonuses and other financial incentives for clinical and non-clinical team members.

UMMS has also been proud to play an indispensable leadership role in Maryland’s COVID-19 response. A short list of our efforts includes:

• Partnering with the Maryland Department of Health and Johns Hopkins Medicine to run the Baltimore Convention Center Field Hospital (BCCFH), the largest alternative care and free mass testing site in Maryland and the state’s first and largest monoclonal infusion site
• Providing COVID treatment to hundreds of local residents, travelers and front-line medical providers and first responders sheltered at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Downtown Baltimore during the height of the pandemic
• Reopening and converting the UM Laurel Regional Medical Center into a COVID-only care site
• Overseeing three mass vaccination sites in Baltimore City and Prince George’s county
• Leading the state’s first inpatient vaccination program and deploying mobile clinics serving underserved communities.
• Providing extraordinary care to more than 31,000 COVID patients
• Collectively administering nearly 400,000 vaccination across our System.