401(k) · DOL Form 5500 · 2022

Iowa Health System Section 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Data updated 2026-05-15

$2.7B
Total assets
28,603
Participants
100th
Percentile by assets
$93,851
Avg per participant

Sponsored by Iowa Health System · Iowa · Healthcare & Social Assistance

What the 2022 filing shows

Iowa Health System Section 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan holds $2.7B for 28,603 participants - about $93,851 per participant, among the largest 1% of all filed plans, down 15.8% over the 2022 plan year.

$2.7B
total plan assets (2022 EOY)
28,603
covered participants
100th
percentile by assets (of 139,258 plans)
$93,851
avg assets per participant

The plan reported a net loss of $504M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.

State
Industry
Healthcare & Social Assistance

401(k) · DOL Form 5500 · 2022

What the Filing Says About Iowa Health System Section 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Iowa Health System Section 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan is a 401(k) retirement plan sponsored by Iowa Health System, headquartered in Iowa. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2022 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $2.7B in total end-of-year assets and covers 28,603 participants across the Healthcare & Social Assistance industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 421435199, and the plan has been effective since 2001-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets declined sharply from $3.2B at the beginning of 2022 to $2.7B at year-end - down 15.8%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $2.7B, with reported net income of -$504M driven by investment returns, contributions received, and benefit payments during the period. These figures reflect what the plan administrator certified on Schedule H or Schedule I of the Form 5500 annual return and can be compared against 2 prior plan-year filings from the same sponsor shown below.

Across the 3 plan years Iowa Health System has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $2.7B to $3.4B, a gain of 22.7%, while reported participants moved from 29,710 to 25,980 (-12.6%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $3.4B; the softest was 2022 at $2.7B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $2.7B in assets across 2 plans covering 29,710 participants; 2023 - $3.0B in assets across 2 plans covering 29,936 participants; 2024 - $3.4B in assets across 2 plans covering 25,980 participants.

By assets, Iowa Health System Section 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan outranks nearly all the 139,258 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2022 plan year, and holds roughly 27x the national average plan size of $100M and 730 average participants.

Asset totals and participant counts reflect a single plan year snapshot and can change materially with market conditions, plan mergers, or workforce changes. Fields such as "net income" include both realized investment performance and contribution/distribution flows, a single-year figure does not by itself indicate plan health or participant outcomes. This page summarizes public DOL disclosures for research and educational purposes only and is not retirement, tax, legal, or financial advice. Before making decisions about your own retirement benefits or evaluating an employer's plan, verify the underlying filing directly via the DOL EFAST2 system and consult a qualified professional.

How the percentile is calculated: we count every plan that filed a 2022 Form 5500 with a reported end-of-year asset figure (139,258 plans), rank Iowa Health System Section 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan against all of them by total assets, and report the share of those plans it outranks. A plan reporting no asset figure for the year is excluded from the ranking rather than assumed to be zero.

Financial Summary (2022)

Total Assets (Beginning of Year)$3.2B
Total Assets (End of Year)$2.7B
Net Assets (End of Year)$2.7B
Net Income-$504M
Plan Type401(k)
Employer EIN421435199
Plan Effective Date2001-01-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Iowa Health System)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 2 29,710 $2.7B
2023 2 29,936 $3.0B
2024 2 25,980 $3.4B

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Iowa Health System Section 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan?
As of the 2022 Form 5500 filing, Iowa Health System Section 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan holds $2.7B in total assets with 28,603 participants. It is sponsored by Iowa Health System.
What type of plan is Iowa Health System Section 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan?
Iowa Health System Section 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan is a 401(k) plan. It has been effective since 2001-01-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 421435199.
Who sponsors the Iowa Health System Section 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan?
Iowa Health System Section 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan is sponsored by Iowa Health System, located in Iowa. The sponsor's EIN is 421435199 and the plan operates in the Healthcare & Social Assistance industry.
How did Iowa Health System Section 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan perform in 2022?
Iowa Health System Section 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan declined sharply - down 15.8% during 2022, moving from $3.2B to $2.7B in total assets. Net income was -$504M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Iowa Health System Section 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan's numbers.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), Form 5500 public disclosure dataset. Plan year 2022.

Source: DOL EFAST2 filing system (efast.dol.gov) - original filing retrieval by EIN 421435199.

Reference: IRS Publication 560, Retirement Plans for Small Business, contribution-limit rules.

Reference: IRS Publication 590-B, Distributions from IRAs, RMD rules under SECURE Act 2.0.

Data sourced from U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA). See our methodology for details.

Every figure on PlainRetire is rendered directly from the Department of Labor's Form 5500 annual return filings, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-05-15.