David Dill

Apollo's Chairman

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Lifepoint Health

Immediate Past Chair and Secretary, 2027Acute care, private equity ownedApollo Global Management funds, 97%

Last verified November 6, 2026

97%

Apollo stake in Lifepoint (Senate Budget Committee, 2025)

$9.2M

Annual management fees to Apollo (2025 report)

$25.3M

Dill's 2018 take-private golden parachute

Community hospital campuses, June 2026

Overview

David Dill chaired FAH in 2026 and stays on as immediate past chair and secretary. He became Lifepoint's CEO the day Apollo took the company private in November 2018, collecting a $25.3 million golden parachute in the deal. Apollo's funds own 97% of Lifepoint and draw $9.2 million a year in management fees, per a 2025 Senate Budget Committee report. Lifepoint publishes no financial statements. In June 2026 it bought eight hospitals back from ScionHealth, the Apollo sister company it spun off in 2021.

Since April 2026

What has changed

April 23, 2026Breach notices mailed for the February 2026 vendor-employee data breach. source
June 2, 2026Lifepoint completes purchase of eight ScionHealth hospitals. source
June 2, 2026Lifepoint files antitrust complaint against MultiPlan and major insurers. source
June 16, 2026CFO Aaron Lewis named President and COO; national CFO search under way. source
October 14, 2026FAH elects the 2027 slate. Dill moves from Chair to Immediate Past Chair and Secretary. source

The company

Lifepoint Health

•68 community hospital campuses, more than 70 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, more than 300 other sites, nearly 59,000 employees (company release, June 16, 2026).
•Lifepoint is private. No 2025 revenue, net income, CEO pay or pay ratio is public. The company has filed no SEC periodic reports since delisting on November 16, 2018.
•Apollo's RCCH HealthCare Partners merged with LifePoint on November 16, 2018 at $65 a share. Enterprise value roughly $5.6 billion including $2.9 billion of net debt and minority interest (merger announcement, July 23, 2018).
•Dill was President and COO before the merger and became CEO at closing (8-K, 2018).
•The Senate Budget Committee's bipartisan January 2025 report used Lifepoint's Ottumwa Regional Health Center in Iowa as a case study of underinvestment and declining quality.
•No 2025 or 2026 credit rating action on Lifepoint was found.

Ownership and control

•Owned by funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management since the 2018 take-private.
•Apollo stake roughly 97%; management fees $9.2 million a year (Senate Budget Committee, January 7, 2025).
•ScionHealth, also Apollo-backed, was created in December 2021 from Kindred's long-term acute care hospitals plus 18 Lifepoint community hospitals. Lifepoint bought eight of them back on June 2, 2026.

Settlements, investigations and lawsuits

•January 7, 2025: Senate Budget Committee report on private equity hospital ownership, with Lifepoint and Apollo as a case study. Findings: a $9.2 million annual management fee, a 97% Apollo stake, underinvestment and declining quality at Ottumwa.
•August 15, 2025: Province Healthcare and eight other Lifepoint entities agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle wage claims by patient-care workers. The case is in Delaware federal court.
•September 11, 2025: a Tennessee federal judge denied Lifepoint's motion to dismiss a proposed ERISA class action over 401(k) fees and use of forfeitures.
•April 23, 2026: Lifepoint began mailing notices for a February 2026 data breach. It exposed names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of contracted vendors' employees. Count not disclosed.
•June 2, 2026: Lifepoint sued MultiPlan, Aetna, Cigna, Elevance and other insurers in the Chicago MultiPlan antitrust litigation, alleging a conspiracy to suppress out-of-network reimbursement.
•A payment dispute, Legacy Lifepoint Health v. Anthem Health Plans of Kentucky, is in discovery in Kentucky federal court through December 2026.

Compensation

Year	Total compensation	CEO-to-worker pay ratio
2025	Not public (private company)	Not public
2018	$25,268,698 golden parachute at the Apollo merger	Not applicable

Deals since 2025

•March 6, 2026: agreement to buy eight acute care hospitals from ScionHealth in Idaho, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Price not disclosed.
•June 2, 2026: the ScionHealth purchase closed. Network now 68 community hospital campuses.

Political giving

•September 12, 2025: $5,000 to Lifepoint Health PAC (FEC).
•September 15, 2025: $5,000 to Federation of American Hospitals PAC (FEC).
•September 15, 2025: $2,000 to American Hospital Association PAC (FEC).

Red flags

Conflicts and concerns

A bipartisan Senate committee found Apollo takes $9.2 million a year in fees from a 97%-owned hospital company. Quality declined at its Iowa case-study hospital.

Dill's $25.3 million parachute was paid by the same buyout that loaded Lifepoint with debt and ended its public reporting.

Lifepoint and ScionHealth, both Apollo companies, have now traded the same hospitals twice, in 2021 and 2026, with no price disclosed either time.

A 2026 breach exposed vendor employees' Social Security numbers. Lifepoint has not said how many.

Physician-owned hospitals

Lifepoint's hospitals sit in small markets where a physician-owned competitor would be the only alternative. A 2023 JAMA study found private equity acquisition raised hospital-acquired conditions by 25%, falls by 27% and central line infections by 38%. The POH ban protects that record from competition. Dill chaired the lobby that defends the ban through the year the ban's repeal bills died in committee.

Sources