Community Health Plan of Washington
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911729710
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 1-800-440-1561
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Group Health Practice (Health Maintenance Organizations)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,636,587,763
- Expenses
- $1,703,635,557
- Assets
- $498,648,821
- Liabilities
- $296,200,046
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
44 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LEANNE BERGE (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- LEANNE BERGE (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $1,063,575 total reported compensation
- ALAN REED LEDERMAN (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $700,758 total reported compensation
- DEMETRIA CEVONNE MALLOY (CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER): $658,591 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
CHPW provides whole-person integrated care—addressing physical health, behavioral health, and social drivers of health (e.g., access to food, housing, transportation)—for Washingtonians. The Member Advisory Council (MAC) is a collective space where CHPW members can share their values, needs, and experiences directly with us. As a Council member, you can help shape and improve CHPW’s health services and programs to best support your community’s health. |. | On this page. This relationship provides a deep connection to the communities we serve, as does the fact that nearly all our staff live and work in Washington. So, our staff know first-hand the community resources our members may need. As a not-for-profit, CHPW sends 100% of our profits back to the...
What it reported doing in 2024
The plan provides health insurance coverage to enrollees of the Washington state health care authority's (hca) medicaid integrated managed care (imc) service programs: apple health family (ahf), children's health insurance program (chip), apple health blind and disabled (ahbd), apple health expansion (ahe), and behavioral health services only (bhso). The plan also provides health insurance coverage to enrollees through the medicare advantage (ma) program: medicare advantage individual plans and a special needs plan for dually-eligible (medicare and medicaid) participants (d-snp) and provides a health insurance coverage to enrollees of the hca managed care "public option" program known as cascade select.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Member-benefit provider. The nonprofit used 99% of its reported program spending for member benefits.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 91.3%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.1%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.59; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.5%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 94% of revenue deployed · 91.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.6B in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.1M · 44 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $7.2M reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 19 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.