Baylor Scott & White Health

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
810872075
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Dallas, TX, USA
Phone
1.866.218.6919
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Ambulatory Health Center, Community Clinic

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$189,364,590
Expenses
$192,731,662
Assets
$22,140,017
Liabilities
$22,052,982

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • Alejandro Arroliga MD (Former Officer): $2,669,383 total reported compensation
  • Walter Peters MD (Director/Chair): $1,861,932 total reported compensation
  • Brett Stauffer MD (Director (Eff. 05/21/2025)): $1,632,357 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Baylor Scott & White Health is a not-for-profit health system that provides comprehensive healthcare services across Texas.

What it reported doing in 2024

See Schedule OCentury Integrated Partners, Inc. ("Century"), a Texas nonprofit corporation, is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, and educational purposes, within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Baylor Scott & White Health formed Century as a wholly owned, tax-exempt affiliate to provide physician coverage and physician services for certain affiliated hospital emergency rooms, in order to improve the quality of care and cost of physician services to its patients, including indigent patients. Previously, physician coverage was provided by various independent physician groups, many of which did not follow Baylor Scott & White Health's financial assistance policy and were not part of the Baylor Scott & White Health's managed care plans. As a result, both indigent patients and insured patients often were charged higher fees for physician services for emergency room visits. In addition, because different independent physician groups provided the emergency room coverage in various Baylor Scott & White Health hospitals, there was not the same overall strategic planning, best practices, and clinical consistency that could be achieved through a single nonprofit, tax-exempt affiliate to provide physician services. During the fiscal year Century provided free or discounted care with an estimated unreimbursed cost of approximately $19.1 Million to indigent patients qualifying under the financial assistance policy.As part of the Baylor Scott & White Health system, Century furthers the charitable mission of Baylor Scott & White Health through the promotion of health in the community. Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities. Serving communities in 51 counties across North and Central Texas, Baylor Scott & White Health has the vision and resources to provide its patients continued quality care, while creating a model system for a dramatically changing health care environment. Baylor Scott & White Health provides full range inpatient, outpatient, rehabilitation and emergency medical services through 53 hospitals, 600+ specialty care clinics, 250+ outpatient clinics, 150+ primary care clinics, 29 pharmacies, 30+ ambulatory surgery centers, 60+ urgent care clinics, and more than 7300 active physicians. The system also includes a state certified health maintenance organization, the Scott and White Health Plan and the Baylor Scott & White Quality Alliance accountable care organization both covering over 1,200,000 lives. Annually, there are more than 13.5 million patient encounters and more than 1 million emergency department visits at Baylor Scott & White Health facilities. All of the facilities focus on improving quality of care, improving patient access to health care, managing the health of patient populations, and reducing the overall cost of care. During the fiscal year, Baylor Scott & White Health provided $1.3 Billion in community benefits, including $485 Million in unreimbursed cost of charity care to residents of the communities it serves.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 67
  • Accountability: 42
  • Sustainability: 21
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 98.7%; rating input score 99
  • Program expense ratio: 96.9%; rating input score 97
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 10%; rating input score 10; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Limited
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.8%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.3%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 98.7% of revenue deployed · 96.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 1 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $186.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $2.7M · 15 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $173.7M reported
  • Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes executive pay and related organizations
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 111 filed related-organization links
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 10/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.