Northern Light Health CEO salary and executive pay
Northern Light Health paid its CEO, Timothy Dentry, $1,659,381 for the fiscal year ending September 2025. That is down $298,143 (15.2%) from the fiscal year ending September 2024. Total revenue on that return was $473,110,808, up 7.3% from $440,732,989 for the fiscal year ending September 2024. Northern Light Health ranks 202nd of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. Northern Light Health has 4 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 01-0527066, Brewer, ME.
CEO, fiscal year ending September 2025
$1,659,381
- Total revenue
- $473,110,808
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 88%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending September 2025, IRS object ID 202612179349302051.View the filing
Peers: the 183 other hospital systems on this site. Ranked 22nd of 184 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.35% of revenue, our calculation from the same return. Revenue is Part I, line 12; peers are compared on their latest full-year returns.
The system's largest single return is filed separately by Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center (EIN 01-0211501), so the revenue shown here is this return's own, not the whole system's.
Highest-paid people on the latest return
On the latest return, 15 people were paid more than $500,000, 3 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Timothy Dentry CEO President (NLH, filed with the name); Ex-officio | $1,659,381 |
| Greg LaFrancoisSVP EMMC | $1,338,886 |
| Karl-Heinz Spittler MDSVP ChPhysExec | $1,002,299 |
| Anthony FilerFormer SVP-CFO | $987,623 |
| Charles TherrienSVP Mercy&Found | $984,737 |
Also paid on the latest return: John J Doyle (VP Finance), $863,276; Paul Bolin (EVP CPO), $805,724; George Eaton SVPCLO (Secretary), $740,341; Navneet Marwaha MD (VP Ch Qual Off), $722,295; John Ronan (SVP BHH & MCH), $678,217; Hugh Jones (SVP Ch Strategy), $606,392; Carrie Lee Arsenault (SVP ChValueOff), $591,355; Glenda Dwyer (SVP Clinic Oper), $582,428; Jay Reynolds MD (SVP ARG), $551,602; Marie Vienneau (SVP CAD & Mayo), $520,356; Suzanne Spruce (SVP Mkting&Comm), $486,883; Tricia Costigan (SVP Inland/LW), $467,235; Lisa Harvey-McPhersonRN (VP Gov Relation), $466,675; Bette Neville (VP CNO), $460,435; James Rohrbaugh (SVP/CFO & Treas), $458,229; and 45 more.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: Elizabeth Russell (Board Member), Stacy Shaw (Board Member), Alicia Murray (Board Member), Debra Taylor (Board Member), Scott Gray (Board Member), Amanda Thomas (Board Member), Kathy Corey (Board Member), David L Small (Board Member), Lynn M Lombard (Board Member), Sam Weiss (Board Member), Daniel P Thornton (Board Member), David Ahola MD (Board Member), Anne Perry (Board Member), Julie Dawson Williams (Brd Memb/VChair), Marcia Conrad-Miller (Board Member), John Ryan Esq (Brd Memb/Chair), Steve St Pierre (Board Member), Kevin Raye (Board Member).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | Timothy Dentry CEO President (NLH, filed with the name); Ex-officio | $1,659,381 | $473,110,808 | Filing |
| Sep 2024 | Timothy DentryEx-officio (highest-paid; no CEO title listed) | $1,957,524 | $440,732,989 | Filing |
| Sep 2023 | Timothy DentryEx-officio (highest-paid; no CEO title listed) | $1,571,832 | $395,735,251 | Filing |
| Sep 2022 | Timothy DentryEx-officio (highest-paid; no CEO title listed) | $1,901,134 | $327,560,220 | 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 202612179349302051.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Timothy DentryPresident (NLH, filed with the name); Ex-officio | $1,591,453 | $67,928 | $1,302,495 | $264,580 | $24,378 | $31,050 | $36,878 | $1,659,381 |
| Greg LaFrancoisSVP EMMC | $1,278,394 | $60,492 | $475,392 | $123,393 | $679,609 | $56,731 | $3,761 | $1,338,886 |
| Karl-Heinz Spittler MDSVP ChPhysExec | $926,382 | $75,917 | $441,363 | $116,359 | $368,660 | $63,159 | $12,758 | $1,002,299 |
| Anthony FilerFormer SVP-CFO | $917,096 | $70,527 | $662,989 | $136,597 | $117,510 | $31,050 | $39,477 | $987,623 |
| Charles TherrienSVP Mercy&Found | $931,883 | $52,854 | $418,161 | $86,695 | $427,027 | $27,287 | $25,567 | $984,737 |
These figures come from Northern Light 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 Northern Light Health compares
Ranked 202nd of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 201st, Erlanger Health, $1,672,028
- Next in this ranking: 203rd, Marshfield Clinic Health System, $1,623,181
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
INTEGRIS Health$3,100,107 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
ECU Health$2,152,599 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Brown University Health (Lifespan)$2,016,723 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
FMOL Health$1,212,532 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Carilion Clinic$2,205,266 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Common questions
Timothy Dentry (President (NLH, filed with the name); Ex-officio) was paid $1,659,381 for the fiscal year ending September 2025: $1,591,453 from Northern Light Health and $67,928 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, Timothy Dentry, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $1,659,381.
Northern Light Health paid its CEO, Timothy Dentry, $1,659,381 for the fiscal year ending September 2025. That is down $298,143 (15.2%) from the fiscal year ending September 2024. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending September 2022, when the highest-paid person was Timothy Dentry, paid $1,901,134. By fiscal year end: September 2022, $1,901,134 (Timothy Dentry); September 2023, $1,571,832; September 2024, $1,957,524; September 2025, $1,659,381.
Northern Light Health's return for the fiscal year ending September 2025 reports total expenses of $504,364,795 and total revenue of $473,110,808 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so expenses exceeded revenue by $31,253,987. Expenses were $479,832,765 for the fiscal year ending September 2024, so they rose 5.1%. The CEO's pay of $1,659,381 equals 0.33% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 4 Form 990 returns Northern Light Health filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025. The latest full-year return was filed on August 5, 2026. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending September 2025 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.