Northwell Health
Legal name: North Shore-LIJ Anesthesiology PC
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461617561
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Westbury, NY, USA
- Phone
- (888) 321-DOCS
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health Support Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $442,764,662
- Expenses
- $486,507,228
- Assets
- $57,868,466
- Liabilities
- $133,840,973
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL DOWLING (CEO)
- MITCHELL COHN (President)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL DOWLING (CEO): $5,943,362 total reported compensation
- MICHELE CUSACK (CFO): $1,990,193 total reported compensation
- DEBORAH SCHIFF (EVP): $1,854,668 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Northwell Health is the largest health system in New York—and we’ve expanded access to our exceptional care. Two Northwell Health surgeons donning blue surgical scrubs perform neurosurgery on a patient covered by blue surgical sheeting.. Clinical excellence We leverage our integrated health system model — spanning hospitals, ambulatory centers, educational institutions, bench-to-bedside research and community programs — to elevate outcomes, enhance safety and support healthy living for our patients and neighbors. Advancing care through data Our pursuit of clinical excellence is rooted in a culture of continuous improvement and accelerated by data-driven insights. In 2025, as we expanded our reach, we committed more strongly than ever to our mission of delivering exceptional care while fostering lif.
What it reported doing in 2024
North shore-lij anesthesiology, pc is an affiliated member of northwell health, inc. ("northwell") and part of northwell's medical group and ambulatory lines of service. It strives to make a measurable difference in the health status of the communities it serves by providing comprehensive health care regardless of ability to pay.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 42
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.8%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
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: -9.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.31; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 34.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 32.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 99.8% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $441.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $5.9M · 14 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $53.4M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 226 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 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.