Saint Luke's Health System (Kansas City) CEO salary and executive pay
Saint Luke's Health System (Kansas City) paid its CEO, Melinda Estes MD, $4,448,392 for the fiscal year ending December 2023. That is up $811,680 (22.3%) from the fiscal year ending December 2022. Total revenue on that return was $283,168,180, up 8.7% from $260,553,437 for the fiscal year ending December 2022. Saint Luke's Health System (Kansas City) ranks 73rd of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. Saint Luke's Health System (Kansas City) has 2 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2023.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 43-1747502, Kansas City, MO.
CEO, fiscal year ending December 2023
$4,448,392
Also listed with a chief executive title on this filing: JULIE QUIRIN (DIRECTOR-PRESIDENT BEG 11/2023), $1,898,870.
Highest-paid person, fiscal year ending December 2023
$7,812,283Chuck V RobbSENIOR VP & CFO
- Revenue on this return
- $283,168,180
- This is the system's parent filer; the system's largest single return is filed by Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City (EIN 44-0545297), with $1,157,790,152 in revenue on its latest return.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending December 2023, IRS object ID 202413199349314861.View the filing
Revenue is Part I, line 12. Pay as a share of revenue and the peer comparison are not shown for a parent filer.
Highest-paid people on the latest return
On the latest return, 22 people were paid more than $500,000, 9 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Chuck V RobbSENIOR VP & CFO | $7,812,283 |
| Melinda Estes MD CEO DIRECTOR- PRESIDENT (THROUGH 11/2023) & CEO | $4,448,392 |
| JULIE QUIRINDIRECTOR-PRESIDENT BEG 11/2023 | $1,898,870 |
| JAN MURRAYSENIOR VP, CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER | $1,506,825 |
| MICHAEL MAIN MDSENIOR VP | $1,316,042 |
Also paid on the latest return: DEBORAH GASH (SENIOR VP CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER), $1,165,224; REBECCA SESLER (CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER), $1,105,266; MIKHAIL KOSIBOROD MD (VP RESEARCH), $1,056,879; DORIS ROGERS (SENIOR VP HUMAN RESOURCES), $1,009,704; DIANE TRIMBLE (CHIEF QUALITY OFFICER), $970,562; MARGARET DONNELLY (VP POST ACUTE CARE SERVICES), $854,352; GINA LAWSON MD (CHIEF CAPACITY OFFICER), $802,425; JEREMY BECHTOLD (VP FACILITIES & CONSTRUCTION), $744,725; CYNTHIA CHRISTENSEN (VP CONTROLLER), $725,379; SANJAYA GUPTA MD (DIRECTOR), $666,644; DAVID SAFLEY (VP-MEDICAL AFFAIRS QUALITY), $648,668; SUSIE KRUG (CHIEF NURSING EXECUTIVE), $635,377; RANDAL MEYER (VP MGD CARE CONTRACTING), $628,697; JANE PECK (VP CLINICAL SERVICE LINES), $624,181; MICHAEL DARLING (VP SUPPLY CHAIN), $566,742; and 25 more.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: GREGORY BENTZ (DIRECTOR-CHAIR), MAURICE WATSON (DIRECTOR-VICE CHAIR), ALISON ARMISTEAD (DIRECTOR), BLAINE WEEKS (DIRECTOR), DAVE LYBARGER (DIRECTOR), LAJUANA COUNTS (DIRECTOR), RAY KOWALIK (DIRECTOR), RICHARD NORDEN (DIRECTOR), RICHARD WINSTON (DIRECTOR), SANJEEV KHURANA (DIRECTOR), THE RT REV DIANE BRUCE (DIRECTOR).
CEO pay by year
Each row is the CEO on that year's return.
How this pay was reported
The parts of each total, as reported on the return for the fiscal year ending December 2023.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending December 2023, IRS object ID 202413199349314861.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Related | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Chuck V RobbSENIOR VP & CFO | $7,758,929 | $0 | $53,354 | $747,516 | $1,171,396 | $5,840,017 | $26,400 | $26,954 | $7,812,283 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
| Melinda Estes MDDIRECTOR- PRESIDENT (THROUGH 11/2023) & CEO | $4,406,603 | $0 | $41,789 | $2,023,131 | $1,571,260 | $812,212 | $16,500 | $25,289 | $4,448,392 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
| JULIE QUIRINDIRECTOR-PRESIDENT BEG 11/2023 | $1,622,509 | $0 | $276,361 | $960,030 | $521,310 | $141,168 | $250,599 | $25,763 | $1,898,870 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
| JAN MURRAYSENIOR VP, CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER | $1,478,034 | $0 | $28,791 | $712,111 | $337,501 | $428,422 | $14,850 | $13,941 | $1,506,825 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |||
| MICHAEL MAIN MDSENIOR VP | $0 | $1,185,629 | $130,413 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Schedule J, from related orgs | $762,689 | $404,018 | $18,922 | $112,965 | $17,448 | $1,316,042 | |||
These figures come from Saint Luke's Health System (Kansas City)'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 Saint Luke's Health System (Kansas City) compares
Ranked 73rd of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 72nd, University Hospitals (Cleveland), $4,448,841
- Next in this ranking: 74th, Piedmont Healthcare, $4,428,574
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
Baptist Health (Jacksonville)$2,654,184 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Cottage Health$2,100,995 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
ProMedica Health System$3,133,332 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Summa Health$2,239,929 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Children's Wisconsin$2,658,331 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Common questions
Melinda Estes MD (DIRECTOR- PRESIDENT (THROUGH 11/2023) & CEO) was paid $4,448,392 for the fiscal year ending December 2023: $4,406,603 from Saint Luke's Health System (Kansas City) and $41,789 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The highest-paid person on the latest return was Chuck V Robb (SENIOR VP & CFO), at $7,812,283. That is $3,363,891 more than the CEO, Melinda Estes MD.
Saint Luke's Health System (Kansas City) paid its CEO, Melinda Estes MD, $4,448,392 for the fiscal year ending December 2023. That is up $811,680 (22.3%) from the fiscal year ending December 2022. By fiscal year end: December 2022, $3,636,712 (Melinda Estes MD); December 2023, $4,448,392.
Saint Luke's Health System (Kansas City)'s return for the fiscal year ending December 2023 reports total expenses of $280,405,011 and total revenue of $283,168,180 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $2,763,169. Expenses were $257,422,849 for the fiscal year ending December 2022, so they rose 8.9%. The CEO's pay of $4,448,392 equals 1.59% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 2 Form 990 returns Saint Luke's Health System (Kansas City) filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2023. The latest full-year return was filed on November 14, 2024. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending December 2023 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.