Eric D. Fish, MD, MBA, FACOG
Trustee, term 2027-2029
President & CEO | Schneck Medical Center
Last verified November 4, 2026
Affiliations
- •President and CEO of Schneck Medical Center in Seymour, Ind., since September 2020. He is also President of Health Development Corporation and Coordinated Health, both Schneck subsidiaries, and an ex officio member of the Schneck Medical Center Foundation board.
- •Elected to the AHA Board of Trustees on Sept. 9, 2025 to fill a vacancy through Dec. 31, 2026, then re-elected in July 2026 to a full three-year term beginning Jan. 1, 2027.
- •Chair of AHA Regional Policy Board 5.
- •Board member of the Indiana Hospital Association and Suburban Health Organization.
- •Board member of SIHO Holdings, a hospital-affiliated insurance entity, and of JC Bank, a local community bank.
- •Board member of the Jackson County Industrial Development Corporation, Community Foundation of Jackson County, Boys & Girls Club of Seymour and the Jackson County Ambulance Board.
- •Board-certified OB/GYN who joined Schneck in 2005, founded Schneck Obstetrics & Gynecology in 2006, and rose through Chief Medical Officer and COO to CEO. He holds an MD from Indiana University and an MBA from the University of Tennessee.
Financial / Compensation
- •Schneck is a county-owned hospital organized under Indiana Code 16-22. It does not file a standard Form 990, so Fish's compensation does not appear on ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer and was not found in any public source.
- •Schneck's audited FY2024 (calendar 2024) total operating revenue rose 7.5% to $392.8 million, against operating expenses of $379.5 million, for operating income of $13.3 million.
- •Schneck's net position rose $26.0 million in 2024 to $488.2 million, after a $28.9 million increase in 2023.
- •Schneck raised its rates 2% in 2024 after holding them flat in 2023.
- •Charity care was $1.87 million in charges and an estimated $913,352 in cost in 2024, about 0.23% of operating expenses, compared with $17.3 million written off as bad debt.
- •Schneck books revenue from 14 long-term care facilities it operates through lease and management arrangements. It recognized $19.9 million in nursing-home Medicaid upper payment limit (UPL) supplemental payments in 2024, up from $13.9 million in 2023, which exceeds its operating income.
- •Schneck carried a $16.3 million executive deferred compensation liability (including a 457(f) plan) at the end of 2024, up from $14.2 million.
- •Fish's executive pay may be spread across Schneck, Health Development Corporation, Coordinated Health and outside boards (SIHO Holdings, JC Bank), and no single public filing captures it.
Lobbying and Political
- •No federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings for Schneck have been found since 2006, when MCapitol Management reported $30,000 in income from Schneck Memorial Hospital.
- •As an Indiana Hospital Association board member, Fish helps steer the state's main hospital lobby on hospital reimbursement, scope of practice, certificate of need and workforce issues.
- •As a continuing AHA trustee and chair of AHA Regional Policy Board 5, he helps shape the AHA's federal agenda, including its opposition to physician-owned hospitals.
Revolving Door
- •Fish's governance seats concentrate in one county of about 44,000 people: the county hospital, a hospital-affiliated insurer (SIHO Holdings), the local bank (JC Bank), the county industrial development corporation and the ambulance board.
- •Schneck CFO Deborah Mann also sits on the SIHO Holdings board, which means two Schneck executives are on the board of an insurer that deals with the hospital.
- •No federal or state government roles were found.
Home System Record
- •In 2024, Schneck added physicians in primary care, anesthesia, pain management, psychiatry, nephrology and general surgery. It also opened a Level II nursery and began a new electronic health record system set to go live in fall 2025.
- •Agency labor cost Schneck more than $5.4 million in 2024.
- •Auditors flagged a repeat significant deficiency in internal controls for 2024: cashiers could both take patient payments and post adjustments or write-offs to patient accounts. Management concluded the cost of fixing it outweighed the benefit.
- •The 2024 audit also flagged weak segregation of duties at Schneck's nursing homes.
- •Patients' own payments made up 4% of Schneck's gross revenue but 23% of its receivables at the end of 2024, which points to heavy self-pay collections.
- •Schneck had $15.8 million in Series 2020 revenue refunding bonds outstanding at the end of 2024, with covenants on days of cash, debt service coverage and debt-to-capitalization.
- •No 2025 or 2026 layoffs, strikes, closures, mergers or credit rating actions involving Schneck were found.
Litigation and Scrutiny
- •No False Claims Act, antitrust, state attorney general, or patient-debt litigation against Schneck Medical Center in 2025 or 2026 was found.
Red Flags
Schneck's charity care cost was $913,352 in 2024, less than a quarter of one percent of its $379.5 million in operating expenses and about one-nineteenth of its $17.3 million in bad debt, while its net position grew $26 million.
Schneck's bottom line leans on government supplemental money. The $19.9 million in nursing-home UPL payments it recognized in 2024 exceeds its entire $13.3 million operating income, an arrangement that turns a county hospital into a pass-through for federal Medicaid dollars.
Auditors twice flagged that Schneck cashiers can both collect patient payments and write off patient balances. Management declined to fix it on cost grounds, at a hospital where 23% of receivables are owed by patients.
Fish now holds a full three-year AHA term starting in 2027 and chairs Regional Policy Board 5, which gives a small county hospital's CEO a vote on AHA positions, including its long-running opposition to physician-owned hospitals.
Fish's pay is not publicly disclosed. As a county hospital, Schneck files no Form 990, which leaves his compensation opaque despite public ownership. Schneck's $16.3 million executive deferred compensation liability is visible but not attributed to individuals.
Fish sits on the boards of the hospital, a hospital-affiliated insurer, the local bank and the county economic development corporation, a concentration of local governance seats that public filings do not police.
Schneck raised rates 2% in 2024 while sitting on $488 million in net position.
Pattern Summary
Fish is the physician who crossed fully to the institutional side. After a one-year fill-in seat, he has won a full AHA term starting in 2027, alongside an AHA regional policy board chair and a seat on the Indiana Hospital Association board. His county-owned hospital is profitable and asset-rich ($488 million in net position), but it provides token charity care and leans on Medicaid nursing-home supplemental payments that exceed its operating income. The county structure keeps his own pay off any public 990.
Sources and Citations
- 1.https://www.aha.org/press-releases/2026-07-31-aha-names-new-trustees-board
- 2.https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2025-09-09-indiana-hospital-ceo-named-aha-board-trustees
- 3.https://www.aha.org/about/leadership/board
- 4.https://www.schneckmed.org/about-us/executive-team
- 5.https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/351163135
- 6.https://app.fac.gov/dissemination/report/pdf/2024-12-GSAFAC-0000384038
- 7.https://lda.gov/api/v1/filings/?client_name=Schneck