Houston Methodist
Legal name: Houston Methodist Specialty Physicians
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 332241086
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8326676160
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Hospitals and Related Primary Medical Care Facilities
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $156,416,022
- Liabilities
- $160,448,705
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHLOMIT SCHAAL MD PHD (CHAIRPERSON, PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- SHLOMIT SCHAAL MD PHD (CHAIRPERSON, PRESIDENT & CEO): $1,945,042 total reported compensation
- GAVIN BRITZ MD (DIRECTOR): $1,839,100 total reported compensation
- KEVIN VARNER MD (DIRECTOR): $1,709,699 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
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Houston Methodist Specialty Physicians is a physician group affiliated with Houston Methodist Hospital, a leading academic medical center in Houston, Texas. The group provides specialized medical care across multiple disciplines, including orthopedics, spine, transplant, urology, and weight loss surgery. It operates through the Specialty Physician Group, offering same-day orthopedic injury clinics and comprehensive care centers. The organization is part of a larger system committed to leading medicine through innovation, research, and patient-centered care.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 32
- Sustainability: 1
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.03; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 0 of 20 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.9M · 24 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 17 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: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.