WVU Medicine
Legal name: West Virginia United Health System Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 550754713
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Morgantown, WV, USA
- Phone
- 3042857150
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Health Systems
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $519,601,931
- Expenses
- $551,735,787
- Assets
- $497,643,100
- Liabilities
- $316,294,130
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
50 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Albert L Wright Jr (President CEO WVUHS)
- Michael Grace (Chief Admin Officer, Current President, WVUH 2022)
- Karen Bowling (EVP Government Affairs WVUHS President, Princeton Community Hospital Association)
- Robert O'Neil (Former Executive Vice President / Executive Consultant 2024)
Highest reported compensation
- Albert L Wright Jr (President CEO WVUHS): $2,726,278 total reported compensation
- Nicholas Barcellona (Sr VP CFO - WVUHS): $1,233,901 total reported compensation
- Michael Grace (Chief Admin Officer, Current President, WVUH 2022): $1,145,957 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
340B Drug Pricing Program Mission To improve the health of West Virginians and all we serve through excellence in patient care, research, and education. Mission To improve the health of West Virginians and all we serve through excellence in patient care, research, and education. Vision. Educational programs throughout the network recognized for training uniquely qualified healthcare team members and leaders A culture of performance and excellence throughout the network [](.
What it reported doing in 2024
West Virginia United Health System, Inc. dba West Virginia University Health System WVUHS was formed to serve as a part of an integrated health science and healthcare delivery system. WVUHS functions to provide strategic leadership, oversight, and centralized support services for member hospitals and affiliated organizations which allow those entities to deliver higher quality healthcare, reduce the costs of services provided to the public, and provide better environment for education and research. An example of support services provided by WVUHS includes centralized contracting and procurement, historically saving the member organizations in excess of 20 million per year. WVUHS also facilitates the sharing of clinical information to streamline development of quality improvement, clinical best practice, and data sharing efforts. Finally, there is a highly shared focus on quality of care and patient satisfaction at the system level, as the WVUHS Board of Directors continuously looks at Clinical Quality and Patient Satisfaction dashboards which track results from each facility.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 97
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.1%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th 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: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.5%; rating input score 99; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95.2%; rating input score 95; 48th 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: -6.2%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.64; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 21 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $546.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.7M · 50 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $9.2M reported
- Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 42 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 68 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.