The Wright Center Medical Group PC

“Previous to 10/1/18, wcmg was a nonprofit professional membership corporation. Its members were required to be physicians licensed to practice medicine in pennsylvania with active medical staff privileges at area hospitals. All wcmg board members were employed physicians, providers and faculty for the affiliated graduate medical education programs. Wcmg applied for federally qualified health center look alike status in october 2018 under the public health service act section 330 which is pending approval. In order to meet eligibility requirements for this status, on october 1, 2018, wcmg converted from a tax-exempt professional corporation to a non-profit corporation and appropriate revisions were made to the articles of incorporation and bylaws. In addition, a fictitious name application was submitted registering "the wright center for community health" as a fictitious name for wcmg.”

“A copy of form 990 is provided to the organization's president/ceo and other key administrators for review, constructive input, and approval. Copies of the form 990 are then provided to all members of the organization's governing body for review and approval. Upon completion of this review, the form 990 is signed by the organization's president/ceo and filed with the irs.”

“A conflict of interest policy has been approved by the board. An annual conflict of interest disclosure statement is completed and updated by the directors, officers and employees of the corporation. Potential conflicts, if any are fully disclosed, vetted by the audit committee and reviewed by the board and as more frequently as necessary should a conflict or potential conflict arise during the year. Education on conflicts of interest is provided to the board annually. Compliance with the policy is monitored by the governance officer.”

“The wright center for graduate medical education executive and finance committees perform an annual review of the president/ceo's performance, employment and compensation package with full disclosure to the wright center medical group board. Independent comparable employment compensation survey data is obtained. The deliberation and decision is contemporaneously substantiated and noted in the committee minutes. Compensation of key executive employees is determined by the organization's president/ceo and human resource department. A formal, external, comprehensive organizational-wide compensation analysis by a contracted vendor expert is done on a periodic basis, generally every three years. Moreover, data from the american job center network website, medical group management association (mgma), and other regional and national sources may be consulted when necessary to provide additional comparable salary ranges for various positions within the organization, including all executives.”

“Wcmg's governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements, as well as form 990, are available for public inspection by appointment during business hours at the organization's offices. Copies will be provided upon request.”

“Scranton school district based health platform opened health services to the community in september 2017.”

“In the fourth quarter of 2017 wcgm and its affiliated organization wcgme executed a lease agreement for a 36,500 sqft flagship medical facility and administrative offices with wyoming avenue development, llc, a company owned by common board member joseph ferrario. The conflict of interest policy described in form 990, part vi section b, line 12c was followed and a legal ethics opinion was obtained from legal counsel. Renovations of the building, included in the lease, are taking place in preparation for move-in. The lease is expected to be operationalized in late june 2019. Through june 30, 2018 no financial transactions have taken place with respect to the lease.”

“The wright center medical group (wcmg) is an affiliate of the wright center for graduate medical education ("wcgme", ein: 23-2007832). Wcgme is a common pay agent for w-2 reporting for both entities. Wcgme reports all employees on its form w-3; however, employee fte's are allocated to each entity based on time tracking of services provided. Per irs instructions, employees included on part v, line 2a, have been deemed to be the fte equivalent of employees allocated to this organization.”

“Through october 1, 2018, the wright center medical group, pc (wcmg) was a professional corporation, which requires in its bylaws that its board consist of licensed professionals. During 2017-2018 all directors of the board were individuals employed by wcgme/wcmg who were licensed providers. Therefore, the directors were compensated and were non-independent by definition. As noted in schedule o, form 990, part vi, section a, line 6, on october 1, 2018 the corporation was converted to a non-profit corporation and revisions were made to the articles of incorporation and by-laws requiring changes to board composition compliant with public health service act section 330.”