Cayuga Medical Associates PC

“The organization has one physician shareholder who owns two hundred common shares.”

“Cma's relationship with cayuga medical center at ithaca is established through the corporate documents, namely the bylaws and a shareholder agreement. Through these documents, the corporation shall always have only one shareholder who must be a physician licensed to practice medicine in the state of new york employed by cayuga medical center at ithaca and who is a party to a shareholder agreement approved in all respects by cayuga medical center. The number of directors constituting the entire board shall be six. Two of the board members shall be appointed by the medical center and shall be physicians licensed to practice medicine who are employees of the medical center. Two board members shall be elected by the physician action council. The directors appointed by the physician action council need not be shareholders of the corporation, so long as they are licensed in new york to practice medicine and are employees of the corporation. The board members elected by the physician action council are subject to the approval of the medical center. If a director resigns, dies or is removed, a replacement shall be appointed or elected as set forth above for a term of two years. Each director shall hold office until his or her successor has been duly elected and qualified, or until his or her death, or until he or she has resigned or has been removed as hereinafter provided in these by-laws. The board of directors shall include up to six (6) non-voting advisory board members. Up to three (3) physicians may be appointed by the physician action council, subject to approval by the voting board members. One of these non-voting advisory board members may be a physician who is a member in good standing of finger lakes management associates, dba; cayuga area physicians alliance, but who is not an employee of the corporation. The non-voting advisory board members shall be subject to the qualification of article iv sections 3 and 4. Up to three (3) non-voting advisory board members, but in any event a number equal to the number of physicians appointed by the physician action council, shall be appointed by the medical center.”

“See above answer to 7a for complete explanation of membership structure and decision making authority.”

“Form 990 is provided to and reviewed by its board of directors before filing.”

“Cayuga medical associates has adopted a conflict of interest policy in 2011, which board members are required to review and sign annually. The organization regularly and consistently monitors and enforces compliance with the policy by reviewing statements annually for conflicts, identifying any disqualified persons, and recording all proceedings related to a conflict of interest transaction.”

“It is the policy and practice of cayuga medical associates, pc (cma) to compensate staff at market driven wages commensurate with individual performance. Outside sources are used to determine appropriate pay ranges for all roles, including any executive compensation. Physician and key employee compensation is determined based on the medical group management association (mgma) national survey data and other regional and local compensation data. It is the intent that physicians are compensated appropriately based on their individual productivity as measured in collections, rvus, work hours, duties, etc.”

“The organization's governing documents are available to the public upon request.”