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November 12, 2025

10 Employees of Mercy Health (Wisconsin) Took Home $100 Million in Compensation

by Anne Paddock

10 highly compensated employees of Mercy Health (a regional healthcare system with 7 hospitals and about 85 facilities in 50 communities in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois that is headquartered in Janesville, Wisconsin and also owns several organizations that are taxed as corporations including Mercycare Insurance Company, Rockford Health Insurance (which is domiciled in Bermuda), Mercycare HMO (which consolidated with Mercycare Insurance Company), and Janesville Medical Center, Inc (management of union employees) received nearly $100,000 in compensation from 2017-2023:

Javon Bea:  Total Estimated Compensation 2017-2023: $75 million

  • 2023:  $11,561,020
  • 2022:  $12,527,853
  • 2021:  $12,132,146
  • 2020:  $11,000,000 (estimated)
  • 2019:  $10,000,000 (estimated)
  • 2018:  $ 9,363,980
  • 2017:  $ 8,867,895

Shahid Shekhami:  Total Compensation 2021-2023: $6 million

  • 2023:  $1,916885
  • 2022:  $1350,869
  • 2021:  $2,184,802

David Nelson:  Total Compensation 2021-2023:  $4 million

  • 2023:  $1,360,032
  • 2022:  $1,484,159
  • 2021:   $1,316,423

Imdad Almed:  Total Compensation 2021-2023:  $4 million

  • 2023:  $1,262,985
  • 2022:  $1,134,087
  • 2021:  $1,253,518

Merle Rust:  Total Compensation 2022-2023:  $2 million

  • 2023:  $1,255,455
  • 2022:  $1,198,494

Bradley Fiderer:  Total Compensation 2023:  $1 million

  • 2023:  $1,219,953

Todd Anderson:  Total Compensation 2021-2023:  $2 million

  • 2023:  $905,304
  • 2022:  $813,707
  • 2021:  $561,606

Kimberly Scaccia:  Total Compensation 2021-2023:  $1 million

  • 2023:  $564,224
  • 2022:  $485,743
  • 2021:  $321,053

Mark Goelzer:  Total Compensation 2021-2023:  $2 million

  • 2023:  $533,652
  • 2022:  $473,120
  • 2021:  $531,113

Joanna Bea Benning:  Total Compensation 2021-2023:  $1 million

  • 2023:  $505,247
  • 2022:  $468,437
  • 2021:  $412,824

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