Ballad Health CEO salary and executive pay
Ballad Health paid its CEO, Alan Levine, $4,135,022 for the fiscal year ending June 2025. That is up $1,887,227 (84.0%) from the fiscal year ending June 2024. Total revenue on that return was $130,240,270, up 60.8% from $80,998,230 for the fiscal year ending June 2024. Ballad Health ranks 82nd of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. Ballad Health has 4 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 61-1771290, Johnson City, TN.
CEO, fiscal year ending June 2025
$4,135,022
- Revenue on this return
- $130,240,270
- This is the system's parent filer; the system's largest single return is filed by Mountain States Health Alliance (EIN 62-0476282), with $1,307,839,695 in revenue on its latest return.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending June 2025, IRS object ID 202601339349302255.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, 14 people were paid more than $500,000, 9 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Alan Levine CEO Chairman, President and CEO (Schedule O) | $4,135,022 |
| Eric Deaton EVPChief Operating Officer | $1,885,098 |
| Steve Kilgore SVPRetail & Physician Svcs. | $1,755,761 |
| Clay Runnels MD EVPChief Physician Executive | $1,506,654 |
| Marvin Eichorn EVPChief Administrative Officer | $1,499,254 |
Also paid on the latest return: Lynn Krutak (Former Officer), $1,177,446; Anthony Keck EVP (Chief Transformation Officer), $1,106,839; Shane Hilton EVP (Chief Financial Officer), $1,101,222; Julie Bennett CLOGovnc Offcr (Director, Secretary), $1,078,975; Amit Vashist MD (Chief Clinical Officer), $928,920; Deborah Dover SVP (Chief Human Resources Officer), $861,932; Pam Austin SVP (Chief Information Officer), $843,840; Bradley Price SVP (Regional Ops & Svc. Line Dev.), $826,688; Lisa Smithgall SVP (Chief Nursing Executive), $721,060; Marta Wayt MD BHMA (Director), $475,921; Tim Belisle (Former Officer), $448,129; Shana Tate VP Financial Mgmt (Former Key Employee), $415,703; Melissa Carr Sr Dir Treasury (Former Key Employee), $150,921.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: Aldo Noseda (Director), Keith Wilson (Director), David Golden (Director), Dr Brian Noland (Director, Vice Chair), Scott Niswonger (Director), David May MD (Director), David Lester (Director, Treasurer), Martin Kent (Director), Michael J Quillen (Director).
CEO pay by year
Each row is the CEO on that year's return, or the highest-paid person where no one has a chief executive title.
| Fiscal year ending | Name and title | Total | Revenue | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2025 | Alan Levine CEO Chairman, President and CEO (Schedule O) | $4,135,022 | $130,240,270 | Filing |
| Jun 2024 | Alan LevineExecutive Chair (highest-paid; no CEO title listed) | $2,247,795 | $80,998,230 | Filing |
| Jun 2023 | Alan LevineExecutive Chair (highest-paid; no CEO title listed) | $3,804,451 | $72,147,131 | Filing |
| Jun 2022 | Alan LevineExecutive Chair (highest-paid; no CEO title listed) | $4,323,372 | $90,929,944 | 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 202601339349302255.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Alan LevineChairman, President and CEO (Schedule O) | $3,848,876 | $286,146 | $1,520,581 | $2,128,611 | $199,684 | $253,530 | $32,616 | $4,135,022 |
| Eric Deaton EVPChief Operating Officer | $1,747,698 | $137,400 | $894,611 | $604,644 | $248,443 | $110,198 | $27,202 | $1,885,098 |
| Steve Kilgore SVPRetail & Physician Svcs. | $1,651,089 | $104,672 | $508,344 | $323,696 | $819,049 | $72,018 | $32,654 | $1,755,761 |
| Clay Runnels MD EVPChief Physician Executive | $1,375,526 | $131,128 | $797,671 | $541,155 | $36,700 | $100,731 | $30,397 | $1,506,654 |
| Marvin Eichorn EVPChief Administrative Officer | $1,445,711 | $53,543 | $805,288 | $598,349 | $42,074 | $20,040 | $33,503 | $1,499,254 |
These figures come from Ballad 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 Ballad Health compares
Ranked 82nd of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 81st, UMass Memorial Health, $4,141,845
- Next in this ranking: 83rd, University of Tennessee Medical Center, $4,119,053
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
Valley Health System (New Jersey)$6,647,856 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Catholic Health (Long Island)$4,755,111 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
St. Luke's University Health Network$4,495,929 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Marshall Health Network$911,288 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Logan Health$1,740,052 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Common questions
Alan Levine (Chairman, President and CEO (Schedule O)) was paid $4,135,022 for the fiscal year ending June 2025: $3,848,876 from Ballad Health and $286,146 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, Alan Levine, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $4,135,022.
Ballad Health paid its CEO, Alan Levine, $4,135,022 for the fiscal year ending June 2025. That is up $1,887,227 (84.0%) from the fiscal year ending June 2024. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending June 2022, when the highest-paid person was Alan Levine, paid $4,323,372. By fiscal year end: June 2022, $4,323,372 (Alan Levine); June 2023, $3,804,451; June 2024, $2,247,795; June 2025, $4,135,022.
Ballad Health's return for the fiscal year ending June 2025 reports total expenses of $95,277,013 and total revenue of $130,240,270 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $34,963,257. Expenses were $85,724,392 for the fiscal year ending June 2024, so they rose 11.1%. The CEO's pay of $4,135,022 equals 4.34% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 4 Form 990 returns Ballad Health filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025. The latest full-year return was filed on May 13, 2026. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending June 2025 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.