Kootenai Health CEO salary and executive pay
Kootenai Health paid its CEO, Jameson Smith, $1,281,078 for the fiscal year ending December 2025. On the return for the fiscal year ending December 2024, the CEO was Jon Ness, paid $2,035,690. Total revenue on that return was $1,175,246,868, up 17.3% from $1,001,675,291 for the fiscal year ending December 2024. Kootenai Health ranks 213th of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. Kootenai Health has 4 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 82-0380784, Coeur Dalene, ID.
CEO, fiscal year ending December 2025
$1,281,078
Highest-paid person, fiscal year ending December 2025
$1,471,875Robert Burnett MDCARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY MED
- Total revenue
- $1,175,246,868
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 34%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending December 2025, IRS object ID 202622439349302012.View the filing
Peers: the 183 other hospital systems on this site. Ranked 121st of 184 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.11% 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, 7 people were paid more than $500,000, 6 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Robert Burnett MDCARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY MED | $1,471,875 |
| Erick Montero MDCARDIOTHORACIC SURGEON | $1,439,001 |
| Tori Lennox MDCARDIOTHORACIC SURGEON | $1,381,020 |
| Charles Cui MDCARDIOLOGIST | $1,289,036 |
| Jameson Smith CEO CEO | $1,281,078 |
Also paid on the latest return: John McGowan MD (NEUROSURGEON), $1,246,849; Michele Bouit (CFO), $792,331.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: Dr Robert McFarland MD (CHAIR), David Bobbitt (VICE CHAIR), Teri Farr (SECRETARY/TREASURER), Dr Thomas Detar MD (DIRECTOR), Elizabeth Godbehere RN (DIRECTOR), Cynthia Clark RN (DIRECTOR), Kathleen Brodie (DIRECTOR), Robert Colvin (DIRECTOR), Darin Hayes (DIRECTOR), Shawn Alger-Keough (DIRECTOR), Robert Yuditsky (DIRECTOR).
CEO pay by year
Each row is the CEO on that year's return.
| Fiscal year ending | Name and title | Total | Revenue | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | Jameson Smith CEO CEO | $1,281,078 | $1,175,246,868 | Filing |
| Dec 2024 | Jon Ness CEO CEO (RETIRED 3/2024) | $2,035,690 | $1,001,675,291 | Filing |
| Dec 2023 | Cara Nielsen CEO PRESIDENT | $268,944 | $1,496,882 | Filing |
| Dec 2022 | Julianne Holt CEO President (Jan-Jul) | $244,490 | $4,639,108 | Filing |
How this pay was reported
The parts of each total, as reported on the return for the fiscal year ending December 2025.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending December 2025, IRS object ID 202622439349302012.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Robert Burnett MDCARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY MED | $1,449,574 | $22,301 | $1,329,053 | $120,082 | $439 | $0 | $22,301 | $1,471,875 |
| Erick Montero MDCARDIOTHORACIC SURGEON | $1,425,357 | $13,644 | $1,305,068 | $120,082 | $207 | $0 | $13,644 | $1,439,001 |
| Tori Lennox MDCARDIOTHORACIC SURGEON | $1,377,690 | $3,330 | $1,277,373 | $100,227 | $90 | $0 | $3,330 | $1,381,020 |
| Charles Cui MDCARDIOLOGIST | $1,273,139 | $15,897 | $1,213,033 | $60,000 | $106 | $0 | $15,897 | $1,289,036 |
| Jameson SmithCEO | $1,240,840 | $40,238 | $968,145 | $267,991 | $4,704 | $10,350 | $29,888 | $1,281,078 |
These figures come from Kootenai 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 Kootenai Health compares
Ranked 213th of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 212th, Baptist Health Care (Pensacola), $1,295,781
- Next in this ranking: 214th, Willis-Knighton Medical Center, $1,235,962
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare$1,710,461 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
FirstHealth of the Carolinas$1,817,818 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 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
Englewood Health$2,719,250 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Common questions
Jameson Smith (CEO) was paid $1,281,078 for the fiscal year ending December 2025: $1,240,840 from Kootenai Health and $40,238 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The highest-paid person on the latest return was Robert Burnett MD (CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY MED), at $1,471,875. That is $190,797 more than the CEO, Jameson Smith.
Kootenai Health paid its CEO, Jameson Smith, $1,281,078 for the fiscal year ending December 2025. On the return for the fiscal year ending December 2024, the CEO was Jon Ness, paid $2,035,690. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending December 2022, when the CEO was Julianne Holt, paid $244,490. By fiscal year end: December 2022, $244,490 (Julianne Holt); December 2023, $268,944 (Cara Nielsen); December 2024, $2,035,690 (Jon Ness); December 2025, $1,281,078 (Jameson Smith).
Kootenai Health's return for the fiscal year ending December 2025 reports total expenses of $1,111,740,802 and total revenue of $1,175,246,868 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $63,506,066. Expenses were $973,897,402 for the fiscal year ending December 2024, so they rose 14.2%. The CEO's pay of $1,281,078 equals 0.12% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 4 Form 990 returns Kootenai Health filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025. The latest full-year return was filed on August 31, 2026. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending December 2025 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.