MedStar Health
Legal name: Hh Medstar Health Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521542230
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2022
- Location
- Columbia, MD, United States
- Phone
- 877-772-6505
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Health Systems
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,399,792,762
- Expenses
- $2,477,640,537
- Assets
- $512,280,509
- Liabilities
- $468,854,778
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KENNETH A SAMET (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)
- STEPHEN RT EVANS MD (DIRECTOR/VICE PRESIDENT)
- EDWARD WOO MD (MMG PRESIDENT)
- RICHARD GOLDBERG (FORMER MMG PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- KENNETH A SAMET (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR): $6,562,774 total reported compensation
- EDWARD AULISI (PHYSICIAN): $3,295,517 total reported compensation
- STEPHEN RT EVANS MD (DIRECTOR/VICE PRESIDENT): $3,091,813 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
While science is getting better and better at treating people, we’ll never forget the importance of how we simply treat people. At MedStar Health, we offer easy access to great health care in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., via our 10 hospitals and more than 300 other care locations. We’re also committed to advancing your care by continuously learning and applying new knowledge. We help our patients and their families feel understood, appreciated, and confident in their care. Our mission To serve our patients, those who care for them, and our communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Hh medstar health, inc.'s largest program service is to provide management and support to medstar health, inc. And its affiliated entities. In addition to the program service expenses listed above, hh medstar health incurred $506.5m of management and general expenses in providing management and support to its affiliated entities. The program service expenses incurred by the organization relate to corporate service functions including financial services and information systems.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 78% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 42
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.2%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 79.6%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th 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: -3.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.92; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.6%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 82.2% of revenue deployed · 79.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2B in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $6.6M · 13 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $143.6M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 83 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 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.