CoxHealth
Legal name: Cox-monett Hospital Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431656689
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Monett, MO, USA
- Phone
- 417-269-3000
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,668,527
- Expenses
- $70,546,202
- Assets
- $104,150,790
- Liabilities
- $43,735,877
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDREA MCKAY (PRESIDENT)
- MAX D BUETOW (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- STEVE EDWARDS (FORMER PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MAX D BUETOW (PRESIDENT & CEO): $1,977,250 total reported compensation
- JACOB M MCWAY (EVP, COXHEALTH CFO): $1,529,586 total reported compensation
- ALI H AMRO (PHYSICIAN): $798,176 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
CoxHealth is committed to helping you find the care you need.
What it reported doing in 2024
Exempt purpose achievements: cox-monett hospital embraces a mission statement and by-laws that reflect a commitment to charitable purpose and community benefit. Cox-monett provides many services to the community free of charge or with little financial gain. Our goal is to keep our community healthy. The following is a list of services provided to the monett community during the fiscal year ending september 30, 2025. Additionally, the subsidies noted below are calculated using internal cost accounting methods rather than the IRS worksheets for schedule h. See schedule h for the computation of these subsidies using the schedule h worksheets. *participated in the medicaid program with unreimbursed cost of caring for patients and provided charity care and other uncompensated care services. See schedule h for amounts related to these services. *rendered health care services and educational services specifically designed to improve community health are as follows: -community wellness services: cox monett teamed up with the Missouri extension office to offer a new pre-diabetes program. One in three adults are pre-diabetic, and 90 percent are unaware. The program can reduce their risk of getting type 2 diabetes by 58 percent. The goal of the program is to help participants lose 5-7 percent of their bodyweight and work up to 150 minutes of physical activity per week by the end of the 12-month course. The program also functions as a support group, where members can work together to share information. -tuition reimbursement for staff wanting to continue their education. *encourage and provide opportunities for volunteer efforts to serve in the community. Many employees serve on local not-for-profit boards and are involved in various community organizations and are asked often to speak on health-related topics. *operate 24-hour emergency center. Er visits totaled 15,776. *provide many community health and education programs and projects specifically designed to improve the health status of our community at no charge or at a reduced rate, such as: - community health fair, including cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure screenings. Volunteers operate a first-aid station at monett's first on front events. Employees participate in the coxhealth diaper drive and donate the items to a local community kitchen and pantry *combined radiology tests totaled 29,551, inpatient and outpatient surgeries totaled 1,508. *the hospital owns five rural health clinics in monett and the surrounding communities and physician office visits totaled 50,742.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 98% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.6%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 77.3%; rating input score 77
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 8%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 11 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 71.6% of revenue deployed · 77.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $54.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2M · 16 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $1.6M reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 13 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.