A review of tax documents has discovered that Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare CEO Mark O’Bryant received $3.7 million in compensation in 2021. This finding follows a TR report revealing $3.1 million in compensation for O’Bryant in 2024.
Over the last five years, O’Bryant has received $11.6 million in compensation for an annual average of $2.3 million. This average is higher than the annual compensation of hospital CEO’s at Shands in Gainesville, Tampa General Hospital and Lakeland Regional Medical Center.
The compensation for high level officials has become an issue during the negotiations between FSU and TMH related to the academic medical center. In May of this year, the Tallahassee Democrat published an article on the issue. In that article, it was noted that TMH officials declined to disclose O’Bryant’s 2025 compensation.
Confusing Answer
The level of compensation and the response from TMH explaining the increase in the 2024 compensation ($3.1 million) when compared to the 2023 compensation ($1.8 million) is not consistent with numbers provided in IRS tax documents.
When TR reported the 2024 compensation of $3.1 million, TMH Vice President and Chief Communications Officer Stephanie Derzypolski said the compensation included “a one-time payout from an enhanced retirement plan.” (This enhanced retirement plan is in addition to O’Bryant’s 457(F) retirement plan maintained by TMH.)
However, a tax document shows O’Bryant received another “one-time payout from an enhanced retirement plan” of $2.4 million in 2021 making the total 2021 compensation $3.7 million.
The IRS Form 990 labels the “enhanced retirement plan” monies as “other reportable compensation” in a category called “supplemental nonqualified retirement plan.”
The IRS defines a “supplemental nonqualified retirement plan” as a plan that is not generally available to all employees but is available only to a certain class or classes of management or highly compensated employees. These plans are typically used to supplement an employee’s qualified plan or serve as an additional compensation tool for highly compensated individuals. They are not subject to the same tax-favored treatment as qualified plans and are often used to provide specialized forms of compensation to key executives or employees instead of making them partners or part owners in a company or corporation.
Compensation Comparison
Over the last five years (2020-2024), O’Bryant has received $11.6 million in compensation for an average annual compensation of $2.3 million. For the same period, this is higher than the average CEO compensation at Shands ($1.83 million), Tampa General Hospital ($1.98 million), and Lakeland Regional Medical Center ($1.8 million). All available compensation numbers were calculated using the same IRS Form 990 reporting categories, including “other reportable compensation.”
For comparison purposes, the 2024 annual revenue for the hospitals in the comparison were TMH – $1.0 billion, Shands $2.3 billion, Tampa General Hospital – $3.1 billion, and Lakeland Regional Medical Center $1.3 billion.
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And, the Editor of The Tallahassee Democrat continues to “cover all this up” as he has since the subject first came up. The Editor has “refused” to urge that “all options” regarding ownership of TMH be explored!!!! TMH is AWFUL!!!!! Neither the current Board/Management nor FSU are qualified to run a “first class hospital”!!!!! There are other “viable options for ownership of TMH”………so why has the Editor not advocated that “ all options be explored”??????????????? Tallahassee has “horrible hospital and medical care”!!!!!
I will let you know how crooked TMH is. They stole thousands of dollars from me! It was a workers compensation case involving a large commercial flat bed truck stacked with lumbar without brakes and rammed into 3 vehicles at red light. Mine was in the middle of the 3 vehicles. My vehicle was totaled and so was the vehicle behind me. Received permanent injuries till today as I speak. The story that followed has been deceat, lies, lack of proper medical care, treated like a criminal, accusations, I’ve never even had a traffoc ticket in my life, yelled at, laughed at, denied information,denied copies of medical records which is a state law I have access to, ncluding all the lawyers that handled my case! I have always been in good standing in a Miami hospital where I worked and at TMH. TMH stole thousands of dollars from me! It is a story to be told of their decectful practices in all aspects of employer (TMH) treatment of an seriously injured employee (RN) who was on the road for TMH Home Health care per my supervisors instructions and. was released from employment and had to receive disability.
That figures, low employee pay. Losing nurses, old equipment, and short staff. But the of course the CEO, is OK. This is why people go to Tampa , Jacksonville, Orlando, or Miami for their health care.
So they have over 6,000 employee so divide 1.3 million and give it to all the employees for Christmas bonus . It would be more then the 20 wal mart card
The neuro department is the department that will kill you! Ever heard of a neurosurgeon going in to remove a brain tumor and they just decide to leave it because they’ve never “seen something like it before.” The patient died two months later! TMH needs to disappear!
I am not surprised at all!!! TMH doesn’t pay nor care about their employees at all!! The pay is ridiculous, management is terrible, the equipment needs to be updated but yet the CEO banked that kind of money, money that should have been given to employees to make sure everyone is satisfied with their salary. The benefits are terrible as well I mean the list goes on and on!!!!
OK, I guess I will ask the Dumb Questions……….. Isn’t FSU only paying just over $1 Million for TMH? If FSU does buy it, will they continue to pay out that huge Bonus every year?
TMH nurses time to unionize??
This is absolutely ridiculous they send employees home all the time . Make us use PTO for holidays hurricane days ect . They paid 15 million in travelers last year . You know why ?? Because you pay your staff hardly anything . Do the math …. Maybe treat pay your employees better . FSU needs to take over and Mark needs to go and give every employee in TMH divide it up give it back . He should be so ashamed of him self . No wonder he was pleading the community to not let FSU take over . The Board should be ashamed of themselves it is time to clean house .
I retired from TMH after working 30years there and my retirement pension is only $354.a month I can’t pay my light bill nor mortgage with less along cable bill.I can’t understand how they can pay him so much when the former retiree can’t live off nothing coming from them.
Meanwhile the staff there is some of the lowest paid hospital staff in the whole state of Florida. And they force some employees to go home early and use their personal time to make up their paychecks because the hospital is “in the red”. ? Disgusting. Mark Obryant is despicable.
How ridiculous that O’bryant gets 2 – 3 MIL! I worked there 2 different time frames, and I can tell you their pay for employees is terrible. I really liked my work and didn’t have to support myself or I could not have worked there. My daughter works at So Med Group and is not happy since TMH bought them. Now TMH is in charge of hiring and the quality has gone way down.
Meanwhile, employees at TMH work holidays for 10% compensation. No time and a half. On average a couple will pay over $700 a month for Capitol health plan. And yes, we used to get an eye care. We share bonus but that fizzled out very quickly. This is just disgusting that a CEO would take that kind of money knowing the pay that the employees get especially the sorry holiday pay oh and don’t forget the $20 Walmart gift card we get for Christmas. We usually gather those together and give them to one of our needy employees.
This is just the “tip of the iceberg”. I think that anyone fighting the transfer of TMH, should seriously look at some of the last 5 years ratings of the hospital operations reported by National organizations, (Medicare rated TMH at “D” level). Eliminate this “so-called” local control of the hospital / community-based thinking. I, and my wife, have first-hand experience with our “locally controlled” hospital, and because of the piss poor results, we now only go to Mayo in Jacksonville. As shown, the salaries of the CEO, the board, and top members of the administration at TMH are out of line for this small regional operation, but then, so are the compensations for much of our local governmental administrators. On another note, how about an answer in regard to the “LOST’ one million dollars from the city in April 2024? Or maybe it went to help pay for the “DOUBLING” of the city commissioners’ salaries!
Yeah sad that employees dont even get paid holidays have to use PTO for that too
They need to let Mark O’Brien Needs To Go
I was dumbfounded to see how much money Mark O’Brien makes it unbelievable and I worked there for pennies. It’s not right it’s not right at all.
“Affordable Health Care Act” my a$$! If it needs to be subsidized, then it’s NOT “affordable”. Just more Alinsky semantics like the “Inflation Reduction Act” that didn’t reduce inflation and was NEVER intended to.
History repeats itself “Supplemental Executive Retirement” hum wonder where Mark O got the idea and again the board was the one who approved that payout as well google search Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare and Former CEO go to Court Over Retirement Benefits, https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/compensation-issues/tallahassee-memorial-healthcare-and-former-ceo-go-to-court-over-retirement-benefits/
Mr. Moore, who resigned from TMH in 2003, says the hospital he led for 15 years has been paying only $227,596 of the $604,732 he is owed yearly in retirement money. TMH counters that Moore tricked board members into agreeing to a Supplemental Executive Retirement program based on inflated salary and benefits calculations that included $1.4 million in severance and the cash-value of other perks.
Administrators are big driver of the outrageous cost of health care. How anyone can take a multi-million dollar salary while the average person is impoverished by the cost of health insurance and the rare occasion they get any medical treatment is disgusting. These days the only people getting affordable health care are illegal aliens who are getting free to them, paid for by us.
This is a national disgrace, thank you to the un-Affordable Health Care Act and democrats.
When is he going to resign this is absolutely untenable. Time for the CEO to resign and the board to be held accountable they are the ones who had to approve all this special compensation.
And…I have heard from a TMH Employee that if an ’emergency’ day, such as a hurricane, requires employees to be off from work, they have to use their PLT (Personal Leave Time) in order to be paid for that day.
My grandpa always told me; “Don’t worry son, the poo always floats to the top.”
N.R. was right about that. They kill us with substandard care and then shower our money on the guy foisting it on an innocent population. I hope every board member rots.
Meanwhile, TMH quietly increased employee out of pocket insurance premiums by hundreds of dollars a month and decreased what TMH pays for each employee’s insurance to approximately $10. So, essentially, all of us worker bees just took a pay cut, even after our pretend 3% raise. But at least the suits and Mark O’Bryant are taken care of. Oh, and let’s all not forget that instead of the “I Care, We Share” bonus we used to get, we now get that amazing $10 Walmart gift card at Christmas and 10% off at the OVERPRICED cafeteria. For those who don’t know, your employee appreciation gifts and lunches come right out of your direct manager’s pocket. Don’t think TMH paid for those either. They pressure us for cash to pay and then take the credit. But, like I mentioned, I sure am glad Mark got his $3.1 million. What would Tallahassee do without a dirty hospital with subpar support and constantly breaking down equipment? Oh yeah, we take out family to other hospitals that are clean and run well like Shands, Tampa General, and Mayo.