Sentara Health CEO salary and executive pay
Sentara Health paid its CEO, Dennis A Matheis, $6,375,042 for the fiscal year ending December 2024. That is up $566,481 (9.8%) from the fiscal year ending December 2023. Total revenue on that return was $1,261,880,759, up 160.1% from $485,099,155 for the fiscal year ending December 2023. Sentara Health ranks 45th of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. Sentara Health has 3 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2024.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 52-1271901, Virginia Beach, VA.
CEO, fiscal year ending December 2024
$6,375,042
- Total revenue
- $1,261,880,759
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 92%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending December 2024, IRS object ID 202513109349303501.View the filing
Peers: the 183 other hospital systems on this site. Ranked 14th of 184 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.51% 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 Sentara Hospitals (EIN 54-1547408), 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, 17 people were paid more than $500,000, 10 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Dennis A Matheis CEO PRESIDENT/CEO/EX-OFFICIO DIRECTOR | $6,375,042 |
| Robert A BroermannCFO/EVP | $3,456,699 |
| Howard KernFORMER OFFICER | $3,383,320 |
| Jordan R Asher MDKE (EVP & CCO) | $3,333,216 |
| Becky C SawyerKE (EVP & CPO) | $2,624,417 |
Also paid on the latest return: Melinda S Hancock (KE (EVP & CTO)), $2,005,794; Megan R Perry (SVP & CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER), $1,951,097; Aubrey L Layne (KE (EVP/CAO)), $1,902,965; Earl J Barnes II (SECRETARY), $1,641,759; Eric Conley (KE(EVP& PRES ACUTE & POST ACUTE CARE)), $1,554,199; Grace R Hines (FORMER TOP 5), $872,585; Prasanna Mohanty (KE (EVP & PRES, AMBULATORY CARE)), $840,579; Michael H Hooper (VP, CAO), $782,359; Steve Barley (SVP, HR BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS), $671,643; Jim Moran (SVP, CHIEF COMP. AND AUDIT OFFICER), $622,663; Bryce Snyder (VP, FINANCE, CARE DELIVERY), $615,227; Adam Holyk (KE (EVP/CCO)), $559,164; Vicky G Gray (FORMER KE), $140,355; L Allan Parrott Jr (DIRECTOR/CHAIR), $50,000; Dian T Calderone (DIRECTOR), $45,000; and 11 more.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: J Les Hall (DIRECTOR (THROUGH 11/24)), John Agola (DIRECTOR (THROUGH 11/24)), William R Ermatinger (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 2024 | Dennis A Matheis CEO PRESIDENT/CEO/EX-OFFICIO DIRECTOR | $6,375,042 | $1,261,880,759 | Filing |
| Dec 2023 | Dennis A Matheis CEO PRESIDENT/CEO/EX-OFFICIO DIRECTOR | $5,808,561 | $485,099,155 | Filing |
| Dec 2022 | Howard P Kern CEO PRES/CEO/EX-EFFIC DIR (THRU 9/22) | $9,857,935 | $401,206,637 | 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 202513109349303501.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Dennis A MatheisPRESIDENT/CEO/EX-OFFICIO DIRECTOR | $6,056,025 | $319,017 | $2,384,378 | $3,159,735 | $511,912 | $285,659 | $33,358 | $6,375,042 |
| Robert A BroermannCFO/EVP | $3,111,555 | $345,144 | $1,353,258 | $1,462,129 | $296,168 | $313,933 | $31,211 | $3,456,699 |
| Howard Kern*FORMER OFFICER | $3,382,628 | $692 | $19,615 | $0 | $3,363,013 | $692 | $0 | $3,383,320 |
| Jordan R Asher MDKE (EVP & CCO) | $3,266,902 | $66,314 | $1,128,042 | $1,199,317 | $939,543 | $25,637 | $40,677 | $3,333,216 |
| Becky C SawyerKE (EVP & CPO) | $2,567,004 | $57,413 | $908,785 | $978,703 | $679,516 | $20,440 | $36,973 | $2,624,417 |
These figures come from Sentara 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 Sentara Health compares
Ranked 45th of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 44th, OhioHealth, $6,546,210
- Next in this ranking: 46th, Memorial Hermann Health System, $6,061,094
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
CHRISTUS Health$14,656,684 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Bayhealth Medical Center$1,936,220 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
St. Charles Health System$2,082,782 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Gundersen Health System$1,397,550 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium$869,841 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Common questions
Dennis A Matheis (PRESIDENT/CEO/EX-OFFICIO DIRECTOR) was paid $6,375,042 for the fiscal year ending December 2024: $6,056,025 from Sentara Health and $319,017 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, Dennis A Matheis, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $6,375,042.
Sentara Health paid its CEO, Dennis A Matheis, $6,375,042 for the fiscal year ending December 2024. That is up $566,481 (9.8%) from the fiscal year ending December 2023. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending December 2022, when the CEO was Howard P Kern, paid $9,857,935. By fiscal year end: December 2022, $9,857,935 (Howard P Kern); December 2023, $5,808,561 (Dennis A Matheis); December 2024, $6,375,042.
Sentara Health's return for the fiscal year ending December 2024 reports total expenses of $443,536,160 and total revenue of $1,261,880,759 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $818,344,599. Expenses were $390,471,283 for the fiscal year ending December 2023, so they rose 13.6%. The CEO's pay of $6,375,042 equals 1.44% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 3 Form 990 returns Sentara Health filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2024. The latest full-year return was filed on November 6, 2025. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending December 2024 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.