FirstHealth of the Carolinas CEO salary and executive pay
FirstHealth of the Carolinas paid its CEO, Mickey Foster, $1,817,818 for the fiscal year ending September 2025. That is up $60,196 (3.4%) from the fiscal year ending September 2024. Total revenue on that return was $1,179,213,070, down 1.0% from $1,190,859,343 for the fiscal year ending September 2024. FirstHealth of the Carolinas ranks 183rd of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. FirstHealth of the Carolinas has 4 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 56-1936354, Pinehurst, NC.
CEO, fiscal year ending September 2025
$1,817,818
- Total revenue
- $1,179,213,070
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 56%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending September 2025, IRS object ID 202612269349302806.View the filing
Peers: the 183 other hospital systems on this site. Ranked 81st of 184 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.15% 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, 14 people were paid more than $500,000, 3 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Mickey Foster CEO PRESIDENT & CEO | $1,817,818 |
| Mark Landers MDPHYSICIAN | $1,293,333 |
| Giridhar Chintalapudi MDPHYSICIAN | $1,031,233 |
| William Harris MDPHYSICIAN | $949,370 |
| Jonathan DavisCHIEF OPERATING OFFICER | $945,059 |
Also paid on the latest return: Daniel Barnes Do (PRESIDENT, FHPG), $916,554; Peter Ellman MD (PHYSICIAN), $916,355; William Kitchens MD (PHYSICIAN), $878,675; Jeffrey Casey (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER), $825,920; Jenifir Bruno (CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER), $780,464; Amy Graham (CHIEF STRATEGY/INNOVATION OFFICER), $612,198; Berni Szczepanski (CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER), $592,802; Jacklynn Lesniak (VP, MRH PATIENT CARE SVCS.), $588,700; Chris Beasley (CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER), $579,654; Christopher Fraley (VP, FINANCE), $495,199; Cynthia McNeill-McDonald (CHIEF QUALITY OFFICER), $486,279; Susan Beaty (CHIEF NURSING OFFICER), $443,201; Christy Land (PRESIDENT, SOUTHERN REGION), $421,477; Matthew Prestwood (PRESIDENT, EASTERN REGION), $404,155; Rebecca Carter (PRESIDENT - WESTERN REGION), $273,494.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: Arthur Medeiros (SECRETARY), Cindy Goodman (CHAIR), David Wood (VICE CHAIR), Gary Voncannon (IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR), Ray Allen (TREASURER), Alexander Sandy Stewart MD (MEMBER (AS OF 1/1/2025)), Ben Jones (MEMBER), Brian McMurray (MEMBER ( THRU 12/31/2024)), Charles Kuzma (MEMBER (AS OF 1/1/2025)), Elizabeth Webster (MEMBER), James Obi (MEMBER), Jason Jerry MD (MEMBER ( THRU 12/31/2024)), Jefferson Kilpatrick MD (MEMBER), Matthew Harmody MD (MEMBER), Susan Keller (MEMBER), Sushma Patel (MEMBER), Tom Pashley (MEMBER), Wayne Lucas MD (MEMBER).
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 | Mickey Foster CEO PRESIDENT & CEO | $1,817,818 | $1,179,213,070 | Filing |
| Sep 2024 | Mickey Foster CEO President and CEO | $1,757,622 | $1,190,859,343 | Filing |
| Sep 2023 | Mickey Foster CEO PRESIDENT / CEO | $1,460,306 | $1,170,036,773 | Filing |
| Sep 2022 | Mickey Foster CEO PRESIDENT & CORP. CEO | $1,341,685 | $1,109,525,538 | 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 202612269349302806.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Mickey FosterPRESIDENT & CEO | $1,614,815 | $203,003 | $1,055,721 | $514,864 | $44,230 | $176,463 | $26,540 | $1,817,818 |
| Mark Landers MDPHYSICIAN | $1,242,293 | $51,040 | $777,215 | $421,210 | $43,868 | $24,500 | $26,540 | $1,293,333 |
| Giridhar Chintalapudi MDPHYSICIAN | $996,195 | $35,038 | $469,628 | $486,929 | $39,638 | $24,500 | $10,538 | $1,031,233 |
| William Harris MDPHYSICIAN | $905,178 | $44,192 | $748,846 | $127,041 | $29,291 | $24,500 | $19,692 | $949,370 |
| Jonathan DavisCHIEF OPERATING OFFICER | $848,589 | $96,470 | $563,958 | $243,700 | $40,931 | $69,930 | $26,540 | $945,059 |
These figures come from FirstHealth of the Carolinas' 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 FirstHealth of the Carolinas compares
Ranked 183rd of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 182nd, Stormont-Vail Healthcare, $1,829,935
- Next in this ranking: 184th, Tufts Medical Center, $1,816,696
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare$1,710,461 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Kootenai Health$1,281,078 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2025
Centra Health$2,878,656 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Yale New Haven Health$4,968,969 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Children's Minnesota$4,156,070 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Common questions
Mickey Foster (PRESIDENT & CEO) was paid $1,817,818 for the fiscal year ending September 2025: $1,614,815 from FirstHealth of the Carolinas and $203,003 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, Mickey Foster, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $1,817,818.
FirstHealth of the Carolinas paid its CEO, Mickey Foster, $1,817,818 for the fiscal year ending September 2025. That is up $60,196 (3.4%) from the fiscal year ending September 2024. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending September 2022, when the CEO was Mickey Foster, paid $1,341,685. By fiscal year end: September 2022, $1,341,685 (Mickey Foster); September 2023, $1,460,306; September 2024, $1,757,622; September 2025, $1,817,818.
FirstHealth of the Carolinas' return for the fiscal year ending September 2025 reports total expenses of $1,081,645,382 and total revenue of $1,179,213,070 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $97,567,688. Expenses were $1,108,631,197 for the fiscal year ending September 2024, so they fell 2.4%. The CEO's pay of $1,817,818 equals 0.17% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 4 Form 990 returns FirstHealth of the Carolinas 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.