Jefferson Health

Legal name: Methodist Associates in Healthcare Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
232678055
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Phone
2155038958
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Group Health Practice (Health Maintenance Organizations)
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$144,863,578
Expenses
$173,440,590
Assets
$19,678,370
Liabilities
$326,646,696

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • EDMUND PRIBITKIN MD MBA (PRESIDENT - DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • GAURAV JAIN MD (NEUROSURGEON): $2,083,597 total reported compensation
  • HEKMAT ZARZOUR MD (NEUROSURGEON): $1,726,337 total reported compensation
  • ROBERT ELLIOTT MD (NEUROSURGEON): $1,670,863 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Jefferson Health reimagines health care through a service-minded and diverse community of providers and specialists, with a mission to improve lives and focus on patients’ health and safety. At **Jefferson Health** , we are reimagining health care through our service-minded and diverse community of providers and specialists. Our mission is to improve lives. We strive to be bold and innovative, while putting your health and safety first. Each day, we are focused on you. Patients & Guests At Jefferson, our goals are to provide you with quality health care and restore you to good health. You will be treated as an individual and receive services without discrimination. You also have the right to participate in decisions about your care.

What it reported doing in 2024

Expenses incurred in providing physician services, practicing medicine and surgery through duly licensed physicians and surgeons in a manner beneficial to the community and in furtherance of the charitable and educational purposes of thomas jefferson university and thomas jefferson university hospitals, inc.

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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 85
  • Accountability: 42
  • Sustainability: 5
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 94.2%; rating input score 94
  • Fundraising efficiency: $0.04 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • 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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: -19.7%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 16.6; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $163.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $2.1M · 11 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $10.1M reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 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: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 109 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.