Nemours Children's Health CEO salary and executive pay
Nemours Children's Health paid its CEO, R Lawrence Moss MD, $3,081,278 for the fiscal year ending December 2024. That is up $429,669 (16.2%) from the fiscal year ending December 2023. Total revenue on that return was $2,357,991,833, up 13.0% from $2,085,972,065 for the fiscal year ending December 2023. Nemours Children's Health ranks 114th of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. Nemours Children's Health has 3 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2024.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 59-0634433, Jacksonville, FL.
CEO, fiscal year ending December 2024
$3,081,278
- Total revenue
- $2,357,991,833
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 47%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending December 2024, IRS object ID 202513169349305431.View the filing
Peers: the 183 other hospital systems on this site. Ranked 97th of 184 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.13% 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, 23 people were paid more than $500,000, 12 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| R Lawrence Moss MD CEO President and CEO | $3,081,278 |
| Christian Pizarro MDChair, Dept of Cardiac Services, DV | $2,454,462 |
| Peter D Wearden MDChair, Cardiovascular Svcs FL, Dir of Early Autism | $1,922,420 |
| Michael J Erhard MDPresident, North FL Region (To Oct '24) | $1,727,108 |
| Mark MumfordEVP, Chief Operating Officer | $1,697,327 |
Also paid on the latest return: Rodney A McKendree (EVP, CFO and Business Svcs Officer), $1,600,960; Suken A Shah MD (Chair, Orthopedics, DV), $1,509,455; Katherine Deans MD (Surgeon in Chief), $1,402,964; Gina Altieri (EVP, Chief Communications Officer (To May '24)), $1,259,269; James Digan (EVP, Chief Development Officer), $1,253,964; Martha G McGill (President, Central FL Region), $1,169,171; Matthew Davis (Enterprise Chief Physician & Scientific Officer), $1,148,134; Laura A Kowal (SVP, General Counsel), $901,754; Kara Walker (EVP, Chief Population Health Officer), $893,344; Bernard E Rice (SVP, Chief Information Officer), $851,212; Mark Marcantano (President, Delaware Valley), $812,064; Jane M Mericle (EVP, Chief Nursing Exec & Pt Ops), $785,299; Pauline M Corso (SVP, Chief Operating Officer, DV (To Jan '24)), $741,776; William W Higginbotham II (SVP, Finance), $650,431; Kevin Carraccio (SVP, Philanthropy), $642,735; and 31 more.
CEO pay by year
Each row is the CEO on that year's return.
| Fiscal year ending | Name and title | Total | Revenue | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2024 | R Lawrence Moss MD CEO President and CEO | $3,081,278 | $2,357,991,833 | Filing |
| Dec 2023 | R Lawrence Moss MD CEO President and CEO | $2,651,609 | $2,085,972,065 | Filing |
| Dec 2022 | R Lawrence Moss MD CEO President and CEO | $2,507,579 | $1,938,260,783 | Filing |
How this pay was reported
The parts of each total, as reported on the return for the fiscal year ending December 2024.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending December 2024, IRS object ID 202513169349305431.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| R Lawrence Moss MDPresident and CEO | $2,737,399 | $343,879 | $1,475,003 | $852,000 | $410,396 | $292,011 | $51,868 | $3,081,278 |
| Christian Pizarro MDChair, Dept of Cardiac Services, DV | $2,396,524 | $57,938 | $2,089,991 | $303,038 | $3,495 | $0 | $57,938 | $2,454,462 |
| Peter D Wearden MDChair, Cardiovascular Svcs FL, Dir of Early Autism | $1,887,015 | $35,405 | $1,590,655 | $232,587 | $63,773 | $0 | $35,405 | $1,922,420 |
| Michael J Erhard MDPresident, North FL Region (To Oct '24) | $1,607,723 | $119,385 | $559,819 | $277,648 | $770,256 | $67,988 | $51,397 | $1,727,108 |
| Mark MumfordEVP, Chief Operating Officer | $1,510,754 | $186,573 | $962,611 | $382,654 | $165,489 | $145,328 | $41,245 | $1,697,327 |
These figures come from Nemours Children's 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 Nemours Children's Health compares
Ranked 114th of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 113th, INTEGRIS Health, $3,100,107
- Next in this ranking: 115th, Franciscan Health, $3,036,555
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
Children's Mercy Kansas City$1,803,068 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Community Health Network$3,879,760 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Cone Health$1,678,281 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2024
Endeavor Health$5,191,626 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Mass General Brigham$9,180,758 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Common questions
R Lawrence Moss MD (President and CEO) was paid $3,081,278 for the fiscal year ending December 2024: $2,737,399 from Nemours Children's Health and $343,879 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, R Lawrence Moss MD, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $3,081,278.
Nemours Children's Health paid its CEO, R Lawrence Moss MD, $3,081,278 for the fiscal year ending December 2024. That is up $429,669 (16.2%) from the fiscal year ending December 2023. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending December 2022, when the CEO was R Lawrence Moss MD, paid $2,507,579. By fiscal year end: December 2022, $2,507,579 (R Lawrence Moss MD); December 2023, $2,651,609; December 2024, $3,081,278.
Nemours Children's Health's return for the fiscal year ending December 2024 reports total expenses of $2,111,711,586 and total revenue of $2,357,991,833 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $246,280,247. Expenses were $1,828,571,024 for the fiscal year ending December 2023, so they rose 15.5%. The CEO's pay of $3,081,278 equals 0.15% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 3 Form 990 returns Nemours Children's Health filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2024. The latest full-year return was filed on November 8, 2025. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending December 2024 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.