Methodist Health System
Legal name: Physicians Clinic Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470687317
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Omaha, NE, US
- Phone
- (402) 354-4800
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulatory Health Center, Community Clinic
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $306,601,382
- Expenses
- $366,151,095
- Assets
- $108,346,573
- Liabilities
- $59,389,206
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICK ELHERT (PRESIDENT)
- KERI CHARRON (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT ARMBRUSTER MD (PHYSICIAN): $1,554,500 total reported compensation
- JOSEPH AYOUB MD (PHYSICIAN): $1,372,760 total reported compensation
- THOMS HUERTA MD (PHYSICIAN): $1,340,710 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide compassionate, state-of-the-art care across a range of medical specialties, built around what matters most – you.
What it reported doing in 2024
Physicians clinic primary care providers serve as the patient's personal health advocate focusing their medical knowledge and expertise on each person's unique health needs. They offer compassionate care and personal attention - in sickness and in health.primary care medicine provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family and includes family medicine, pediatrics and internal medicine specialties. Physicians clinic physicians are knowledgeable in the biological, clinical and behavioral sciences. The scope of primary care medicine encompasses all ages, genders, organ systems and every disease entity. Physicians clinic holds physicians to the highest quality standards, requiring board certification of all new family physicians. Physicians clinic physicians provide the best in health care for the individual and the individual's family members from infancy to the golden years.during 2024 there were 795,994 visits made to the variety of physician specialities.physicians clinic has adopted a patient-centered medical home model, one of healthcare's most important innovations for improving primary care. Patient-centered medical home is a healthcare setting that facilitates partnerships between individual patients, their personal physicians and, when appropriate, the patient's family. Care is facilitated by registries, information technology, health coaches, diabetic educators and other means to assure that patients receive the indicated care on a timely basis in an appropriate setting.physicians clinic started adopting the patient-centered medical home model in 2012. The initial focus was on diabetes chronic care with a move into hypertension and stroke care. By the end of 2024, 23 adult primary care clinics had made the transformation to the patient-centered medical home model, accounting for 104 provider practices. There are 79 ncqa diabetes recognized providers and 77 ncqa heart and stroke recognized providers in place.
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 99% 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 a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 94%; rating input score 94
- 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: 99.9%; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 55.6%; rating input score 56; 15th 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -19.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $344.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.6M · 18 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $5M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 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: Independent voting board scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.