Boston Medical Center CEO salary and executive pay
Boston Medical Center paid its CEO, Alastair Bell MD, $2,199,373 for the fiscal year ending September 2025. That is up $250,097 (12.8%) from the fiscal year ending September 2024. Total revenue on that return was $2,974,938,543, up 14.4% from $2,600,525,380 for the fiscal year ending September 2024. Boston Medical Center ranks 163rd of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. Boston Medical Center has 4 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 04-3314093, Boston, MA.
CEO, fiscal year ending September 2025
$2,199,373
Also listed with a chief executive title on this filing: Anthony Hollenberg MD (PRESIDENT/TRUSTEE), $1,223,979.
- Total revenue
- $2,974,938,543
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 15%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending September 2025, IRS object ID 202602269349302250.View the filing
Peers: the 183 other hospital systems on this site. Ranked 156th of 184 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.07% of revenue, our calculation from the same return. Revenue is Part I, line 12; peers are compared on their latest full-year returns.
Highest-paid people on the latest return
On the latest return, 13 people were paid more than $500,000, 4 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Alastair Bell MD CEO BMCHS PRESIDENT & CEO/TRUSTEE | $2,199,373 |
| Anthony Hollenberg MDPRESIDENT/TRUSTEE | $1,223,979 |
| Joy BrownSVP/CHIEF DIGITAL INFO OFFICER | $1,013,130 |
| Joe CamillusSVP/CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER | $1,006,492 |
| David McAnenySVP/CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER | $921,092 |
Also paid on the latest return: Lisa Kelly-Croswell (SVP/CHIEF HR OFFICER), $841,032; Robert Biggio (SVP/CHIEF SUSTAINABIILTY/RE OFFICER), $813,658; Jesse Souweine (SVP/CTO, TREASURER (THRU 11/12/24)), $789,901; David Beck (SVP/CHIEF LEGAL COUNSEL/CLERK), $788,225; Nancy Gaden (SVP/CNO), $771,073; Sarah Arbelaez (SVP/HOSPITAL INTEGRATION), $741,211; Nicole Faucher (PRESIDENT, CLEARWAY HEALTH, LLC), $731,276; Terri Newsom (FORMER SVP/CFO/TREASURER), $661,947; Ravin Davidoff MD (SVP/EXECUTIVE MEDICAL DIRECTOR), $441,844; Ankur Agrawal (BMCHS SVP/CFO,TREAS (AS OF 11/12/24)), $378,517; Manishi Desai (TRUSTEE), $329,139.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: Martha Samuelson (CHAIR/TRUSTEE), Karen Antman MD (TRUSTEE (THRU 7/1/25)), Anita Bekenstein (TRUSTEE (THRU 5/13/25)), Rev Willie Bodrick II (TRUSTEE), Mary Boyd (TRUSTEE), Ryan Carroll (TRUSTEE (THRU 5/13/25)), Nadine Chakar (TRUSTEE), Enrique Colbert (TRUSTEE), Todd Cozzens (TRUSTEE), Pierre Cremieux (TRUSTEE), Randi Cutler (TRUSTEE (THRU 5/13/25)), Paul Egerman (TRUSTEE), Alik Farber (TRUSTEE (AS OF 10/2/24)), Guy Fish (TRUSTEE (AS OF 2/11/25)), Vicki Jackson MD (PHYS-IN-CHIEF/TRUSTEE (AS OF 9/2/25)), Karen Kames (TRUSTEE (THRU 5/13/25)), Azra Kanji (TRUSTEE (THRU 5/13/25)), Fred Lowery (TRUSTEE), Richard Marks (TRUSTEE), Devin McCourty (TRUSTEE), Michelle Nadow (TRUSTEE), Bisola Ojikutu MD (TRUSTEE), Cynthia Sierra (TRUSTEE), Patrick Smith (TRUSTEE), Ted Truscott (TRUSTEE), and 3 more.
CEO pay by year
Each row is the CEO on that year's return.
| Fiscal year ending | Name and title | Total | Revenue | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | Alastair Bell MD CEO BMCHS PRESIDENT & CEO/TRUSTEE | $2,199,373 | $2,974,938,543 | Filing |
| Sep 2024 | Alastair Bell MD CEO TRUSTEE /INTERIM PRESIDENT(THRU 5/31/24) | $1,949,276 | $2,600,525,380 | Filing |
| Sep 2023 | Kathleen E Walsh CEO PRESIDENT/TRUSTEE (THRU 2/28/23) | $2,283,762 | $2,380,282,356 | Filing |
| Sep 2022 | Kathleen E Walsh CEO PRESIDENT & CEO | $2,557,277 | $2,141,060,598 | Filing |
How this pay was reported
The parts of each total, as reported on the return for the fiscal year ending September 2025.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending September 2025, IRS object ID 202602269349302250.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Alastair Bell MDBMCHS PRESIDENT & CEO/TRUSTEE | $1,919,294 | $280,079 | $1,280,083 | $512,500 | $126,711 | $274,150 | $5,929 | $2,199,373 |
| Anthony Hollenberg MDPRESIDENT/TRUSTEE | $1,207,284 | $16,695 | $865,633 | $277,200 | $64,451 | $0 | $16,695 | $1,223,979 |
| Joy BrownSVP/CHIEF DIGITAL INFO OFFICER | $959,611 | $53,519 | $584,130 | $325,000 | $50,481 | $42,000 | $11,519 | $1,013,130 |
| Joe CamillusSVP/CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER | $844,176 | $162,316 | $618,527 | $197,000 | $28,649 | $114,150 | $48,166 | $1,006,492 |
| David McAnenySVP/CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER | $877,850 | $43,242 | $611,450 | $176,400 | $90,000 | $10,350 | $32,892 | $921,092 |
These figures come from Boston Medical Center'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 Boston Medical Center compares
Ranked 163rd of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 162nd, Monument Health, $2,199,697
- Next in this ranking: 164th, Nationwide Children's Hospital, $2,187,047
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
UC Health (Cincinnati)$2,068,092 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Presbyterian Healthcare Services$4,407,510 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Stanford Medicine Children's Health$2,338,281 (CEO), fiscal year ending Aug 2025
Seattle Children's$2,856,316 (highest-paid), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Wellstar Health System$5,069,923 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Common questions
Alastair Bell MD (BMCHS PRESIDENT & CEO/TRUSTEE) was paid $2,199,373 for the fiscal year ending September 2025: $1,919,294 from Boston Medical Center and $280,079 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, Alastair Bell MD, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $2,199,373.
Boston Medical Center paid its CEO, Alastair Bell MD, $2,199,373 for the fiscal year ending September 2025. That is up $250,097 (12.8%) from the fiscal year ending September 2024. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending September 2022, when the CEO was Kathleen E Walsh, paid $2,557,277. By fiscal year end: September 2022, $2,557,277 (Kathleen E Walsh); September 2023, $2,283,762; September 2024, $1,949,276 (Alastair Bell MD); September 2025, $2,199,373.
Boston Medical Center's return for the fiscal year ending September 2025 reports total expenses of $2,970,019,133 and total revenue of $2,974,938,543 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $4,919,410. Expenses were $2,641,501,168 for the fiscal year ending September 2024, so they rose 12.4%. The CEO's pay of $2,199,373 equals 0.07% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 4 Form 990 returns Boston Medical Center filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025. The latest full-year return was filed on August 14, 2026. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending September 2025 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.