Aspirus Health CEO salary and executive pay
Aspirus Health paid its CEO, Matthew Heywood, $4,230,174 for the fiscal year ending June 2025. That is up $2,307,871 (120.1%) from the fiscal year ending June 2024. Total revenue on that return was $47,088,956, up 56.6% from $30,068,603 for the fiscal year ending June 2024. Aspirus Health ranks 6th of 36 hospitals on this site by CEO pay. Aspirus Health has 4 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 39-1328331, Wausau, WI.
CEO, fiscal year ending June 2025
$4,230,174
- Revenue on this return
- $47,088,956
- This is the system's parent filer; the system's largest single return is filed by Aspirus Wausau Hospital (EIN 39-1138241), with $791,957,550 in revenue on its latest return.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending June 2025, IRS object ID 202641349349303214.View the filing
Revenue is Part I, line 12. Pay as a share of revenue and the peer comparison are not shown for a parent filer.
Highest-paid people on the latest return
On the latest return, 13 people were paid more than $500,000, 3 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Matthew Heywood CEO BOARD MEMBER/PRESIDENT & CEO ASPIRUS | $4,230,174 |
| Sidney SczygelskiSVP-SPECIAL PROJECTS/FORMER CFO | $1,508,031 |
| Michael HolzhueterSVP-CHIEF HR OFFICER | $1,016,165 |
| Michael WaltersSVP-SYSTEM CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER | $881,152 |
| James MathesonSVP-CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER | $860,704 |
Also paid on the latest return: Jennifer Redman-Schell (SVP & PRESIDENT-AMG), $832,530; Jerry M Yang (SVP-CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER), $815,634; Will Weider (SVP-CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER), $766,465; Jesse Tischer (SVP & PRESIDENT-AWH (FORMER)), $738,834; Noel Deep MD (BOARD MEMBER/VP-CMO), $646,320; Ridhwi Mukerji (PHYSICIAN), $572,733; Volodymyr Manko (PHYSICIAN), $564,758; David Bittner (SVP-ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT), $564,504; William Carroll (VP-INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY), $497,503; Jonathan Parisi (PHYSICIAN), $472,024; Thomas Powell (VP-CHIEF MEDICAL INFO OFFICER), $457,732; Daniel Gutmann (PHYSICIAN), $452,190; Crystal Kirschling (VP-SYSTEM INTEGRATION OFFICER), $414,052; Joshua Foster (VP-BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION), $329,531; Tyler Hack (VP-FINANCE NORTH REGION), $324,202; and 8 more.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: Jeannie Worden (VICE CHAIR), Jeremy Lewitzke (BOARD MEMBER), Maurine Settergren (BOARD MEMBER), Brian Murphy (BOARD MEMBER (THRU 09/24)).
CEO pay by year
Each row is the CEO on that year's return.
| Fiscal year ending | Name and title | Total | Revenue | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2025 | Matthew Heywood CEO BOARD MEMBER/PRESIDENT & CEO ASPIRUS | $4,230,174 | $47,088,956 | Filing |
| Jun 2024 | Matthew Heywood CEO BOARD MEMBER/PRESIDENT & CEO ASPIRUS | $1,922,303 | $30,068,603 | Filing |
| Jun 2023 | Matthew Heywood CEO PRESIDENT & CEO ASPIRUS | $2,111,048 | $24,159,379 | Filing |
| Jun 2022 | Matthew Heywood CEO PRESIDENT & CEO ASPIRUS | $2,950,315 | $7,575,609 | Filing |
How this pay was reported
The parts of each total, as reported on the return for the fiscal year ending June 2025.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending June 2025, IRS object ID 202641349349303214.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Matthew HeywoodBOARD MEMBER/PRESIDENT & CEO ASPIRUS | $3,868,734 | $361,440 | $1,523,574 | $2,122,736 | $222,424 | $10,350 | $351,090 | $4,230,174 |
| Sidney Sczygelski*SVP-SPECIAL PROJECTS/FORMER CFO | $1,470,041 | $37,990 | $418,918 | $474,490 | $576,633 | $9,284 | $28,706 | $1,508,031 |
| Michael HolzhueterSVP-CHIEF HR OFFICER | $879,825 | $136,340 | $632,337 | $239,983 | $7,505 | $10,350 | $125,990 | $1,016,165 |
| Michael WaltersSVP-SYSTEM CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER | $763,486 | $117,666 | $508,507 | $193,167 | $61,812 | $10,350 | $107,316 | $881,152 |
| James MathesonSVP-CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER | $745,188 | $115,516 | $486,205 | $186,599 | $72,384 | $8,565 | $106,951 | $860,704 |
These figures come from Aspirus Health's Form 990 returns, as the IRS publishes them. The methodology page explains how they're chosen. To report an error, email corrections@ceopaycheck.com.
How Aspirus Health compares
Ranked 6th of 36 hospitals by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 5th, Nuvance Health, $5,305,723
- Next in this ranking: 7th, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, $3,198,225
Closest in revenue among the hospitals on this site:
Nuvance Health$5,305,723 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
McLaren Health Care$13,036,599 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
University of Michigan Health-West$782,405 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Beebe Healthcare$1,541,110 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Greater Baltimore Medical Center$1,172,384 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Common questions
Matthew Heywood (BOARD MEMBER/PRESIDENT & CEO ASPIRUS) was paid $4,230,174 for the fiscal year ending June 2025: $3,868,734 from Aspirus Health and $361,440 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, Matthew Heywood, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $4,230,174.
Aspirus Health paid its CEO, Matthew Heywood, $4,230,174 for the fiscal year ending June 2025. That is up $2,307,871 (120.1%) from the fiscal year ending June 2024. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending June 2022, when the CEO was Matthew Heywood, paid $2,950,315. By fiscal year end: June 2022, $2,950,315 (Matthew Heywood); June 2023, $2,111,048; June 2024, $1,922,303; June 2025, $4,230,174.
Aspirus Health's return for the fiscal year ending June 2025 reports total expenses of $322,508 and total revenue of $47,088,956 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $46,766,448. Expenses were $1,618,245 for the fiscal year ending June 2024, so they fell 80.1%. The CEO's pay of $4,230,174 equals 1311.65% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 4 Form 990 returns Aspirus Health filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025. The latest full-year return was filed on May 14, 2026. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending June 2025 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.