Group Health Plan Inc

“Ghi has associated members. These associate members are individual contract holders of ghi or its related organization that administers self-insured contracts. Hpi is the sole corporate member of ghi and exercises certain reserved powers. Each associate member has one vote. Bylaws, section 1.1.”

“The associate members elect the "member-elected directors." three of the five directors are member-elected directors. The chair of the corporate member serves as a director ex officio and as the chair of ghi.”

“The associate members have approval rights regarding amendments to the articles and bylaws of ghi and any merger whereby ghi is merged into and survived by a different corporation. The sole corporate member must approve the decisions of the board of directors as follows: annual operating and capital budgets and long range plans, indebtedness in excess of amounts determined from time to time, merger or consolidation with another corporation, disposal of assets in excess of amounts determined from time to time, appointment or removal of the chief executive officer, amendment of articles or bylaws, voluntary dissolution, vendor agreement involving 20% or more of operating expenses, any action taken by the vote of the full board of directors. Bylaws, arts iv, xiii, xiv.”

“Ghi's 990 return has a comprehensive review process that is followed before it is presented to the governing body of ghi. The review process includes a layered review by ghi's tax department, management team, internal legal department and outside independent accountants. Each one of those areas has an opportunity to review, ask questions and make comments back to the tax department of ghi before the form 990 is presented to the governing body of ghi. Ghi makes available, to the audit and compliance committee of ghi's board of directors and to the full board of directors, a copy of the 990 for review and comment prior to the filing of the 990 return. This copy is provided in the healthpartners board effect portal for all board members to review prior to the filing of the 990, and is an agenda item at the committee meeting. This process is noted and documented in the written committee minutes of the meeting. These minutes are presented to the full board of directors.”

“The ghi board monitors potential conflicts of interest on the part of its board members, principal officers, members of committees with board delegated powers, and key employees ("covered persons") by maintaining a conflict of interest policy. Under the policy, covered persons annually are provided with a copy of the policy and asked to complete a questionnaire identifying any potential conflicts of interests. The legal department of healthpartners reviews the questionnaire responses and develops a report detailing any potentially material conflicts for the president and chair of the board. A verbal summary is also given to the full board or appropriate committee ending with a reminder to covered persons of the policy's mandate that each person is obligated to disclose any new potential conflicts as they may arise throughout the year. Board agendas and executive decisions are monitored in relation to this policy.”

“Ghi has an annual process to review the market comparability of the total compensation of its ceo and its other officers. Every three years, under the direction of the ghi board of directors' compensation and leadership development committee (compensation committee), a total compensation market review is completed by an external compensation consultant. The review includes all components of compensation; base salary, annual incentives, benefits and perquisites. The market survey results are presented to, reviewed by and approved by the independent compensation committee. Based on this market data, the compensation committee determines minimum and maximum total compensation ranges for each officer. In interim years, ghi's human resources staff, under the direction of the compensation committee, updates changes in the salary structure based on the same independent studies performed by the compensation consultant for the compensation committee. For the chief executive officer and certain other positions full independent reviews are performed to set salary ranges based on the competitive market data specific to those positions. The compensation committee reviews and approves each year's compensation results. In all cases, committee members complete an annual conflict of interest survey to assure the compensation committee members' independence and this is updated at any meeting at which decisions are being made. Staff (other than the secretary to the board) is not in the room during deliberations or vote including executive sessions, and contemporaneous minutes are kept. The board of directors has delegated to the executive committee the accountability to conduct an annual performance evaluation and to determine the compensation of the ceo based on the performance review and the market comparability data, approved by the compensation committee. The board has delegated to the healthpartners ceo and president (with authority to further delegate) the accountability to conduct annual performance reviews and determine the compensation of all other officers within the compensation ranges determined by the compensation committee. Any exceptions to compensation in excess of the approved ranges are approved by the compensation committee. Total compensation is appropriately documented on the form 990 and w2 statements.”

“Ghi financial statements and 990 returns are made available to any person who requests the information from ghi or hpi. Ghi's articles of incorporation are available to any person who requests the information through the minnesota secretary of state's office. Ghi's articles, bylaws, conflict of interest policy, and principles of corporate governance can be viewed through the healthpartners.com website.”

“Corporate structure, purpose, governance group health plan, inc. (ghi) is a minnesota non-profit corporation and licensed health maintenance organization (hmo) recognized as exempt from federal income tax under internal revenue code (irc) section 501(c)(3) and is part of the healthpartners organization ("healthpartners"). Founded in 1957, healthpartners is an integrated health care organization, providing health care services and health plan financing and administration, and is the largest consumer-governed nonprofit health care organization in the country. Healthpartners' mission is to improve health and well-being in partnership with our members, patients and community. Healthpartners seeks to transform health care through a relentless focus on the triple aim - providing exceptional experience for the individual, improving the health of the population, and maintaining affordability. Healthpartners includes an array of tax-exempt and taxable organizations with health care activities primarily operating in minnesota, western wisconsin and expanding into other midwestern states. Healthpartners provides a full range of health care delivery and health plan services including insurance, patient care, administration and health and well-being programs. Healthpartners health plans serve more than 1.8 million medical and dental members nationwide. Healthpartners medical care system includes more than 1,800 physicians and dentists, seven owned hospitals with over 1,000 acute care beds, over 100 owned and leased primary and specialty care medical facilities and 25 dental facilities with practices in minnesota and western wisconsin. Healthpartners also contracts with other primary and specialty medical facilities and dental facilities, physician groups, hospitals and related healthcare providers located primarily in minnesota, western wisconsin and expanding into other midwestern states. Healthpartners also provides medical education and training to medical professionals and conducts research and fundraising activities that support the health care delivery system. A complete listing of all organizations within healthpartners, and the relationship between them, can be found on schedule r within this 990 return. Detailed information about the community benefit activities and accomplishments of each tax-exempt organization can be found in the individual form 990 return for that organization. Healthpartners is driving change that helps our members and patients live healthier lives. Healthpartners collaborates with other plans, care providers and other community and business organizations in the region and throughout the nation to increase access, create and share quality measures and initiatives, participate in development of public policy, and collaborate in improvements that support the triple aim. Among healthpartners' signature initiatives continuing in 2018 are total cost of care measurements (development of a nationally recognized metric, endorsed by the national quality forum, enabling measurement and incentives based on coordination and evidence-based practices), mental health (reducing stigma, and assuring access to high quality care in the most appropriate settings), children's health (improving child health by promoting early brain development, providing family centered care, and strengthening communities), and sustainability (energy efficiency, waste reduction, and resource management). Healthpartners, inc. (hpi) is the parent entity of healthpartners and is a minnesota non-profit corporation and licensed health maintenance organization (hmo) recognized as exempt from federal income tax under irc section 501(c)(4). Hpi is the sole corporate member of hpi-ramsey, a minnesota non-profit corporation recognized as exempt from federal income tax under irc section 501(c)(3). In turn, hpi-ramsey is the sole corporate member of rihs and its sister organizations, regions hospital (regions), regions hospital foundation, rh-wisconsin, inc.,”

“In 2018, hpdg supported community health improvements through: $5,000 in support of a new dental clinic to northern dental access, a community access dental clinic operated by mississippi headwaters area dental health center, a nonprofit organization in bemidji. 15 hours of dental hygiene education to elementary age children during children's dental health month (february). 35 hours at numerous community health fairs throughout the year promoting dental health and distributing toothbrushes and toothpaste. Hpdg's in-kind and monetary donations to community organizations include: give kids a smile, contributing $15,000 in free dental care to children in need. $750 in support of the minnesota oral health coalition, which supports minnesota's oral health community through partnerships, resources and outreach. $5,600 to the university of minnesota (u of m) school of dentistry to support education of future dentists. Safety net coalition in 2018, hpmg contributed to the community in many ways. Hpmg contributed over 350 hours to the community through in-kind donations and community health improvements such as: family fun fest (hpmg's arden hills clinic). The event had over 250 families in attendance, with 300 bags of veggies handed out at the veggie giveaway. Roseville parade (hpmg's arden hills clinic and north suburban clinics) hugo day parade (hpmg's hugo clinic) mcphail center for music offered free music classes that included singing, playing and learning for families at hpmg's wabasha, inver grove heights, and woodbury clinics. Over 30 support groups and workshops supporting families going through loss, grief, hospice care, dementia and cancer. Presentations at 1) the minnesota network of hospice and palliative (mnhpc) conference on culturally appropriate hospice and palliative care; 2) sharing the journey conference multicultural humility presentation. Benefit to the community: membership ghi members receive a full range of prepaid health care services, including professional care in hospitals and physician offices, imaging and laboratory services, various therapies, preventive services, health education, and certain prescription drugs. Ghi provides these services to its members and patients through a broad network of physicians and hospitals. This network includes clinics staffed by ghi- and park nicollet clinic (pnc)- employed physicians and seven healthpartners hospitals: regions hospital (regions), a level i adult and pediatric trauma center in st. Paul, minnesota; westfields hospital, a critical access hospital in new richmond, wisconsin; hudson hospital, a critical access hospital in hudson, wisconsin; amery regional medical center, a critical access hospital in amery, wisconsin; lakeview memorial hospital association (lakeview hospital), a community hospital in stillwater, minnesota; park nicollet methodist hospital, a leader in cancer, cardiovascular and maternity care in st. Louis park, minnesota and hutchinson health, a level iii trauma hospital in hutchinson, minnesota. Hpi, ghi and hpic provide commercial group, commercial individual, medicare and medicaid managed care products to their members. In 2018, these organizations provided comprehensive, prepaid health care services to 1,112,626 fully insured members, encompassing both medical and dental products. These members fit with the following categories: 302,319 fully insured commercial group medical members; 58,667 fully insured individual members; 65,298 medicare (includes cost, supplemental, and medicare advantage plan, both group and individual) members; 160,953 prepaid state healthcare program members, including hmo products for medicare/medicaid dual eligible, low-income adults; and 525,389 dental members. In addition, healthpartners also provides administrative services, through hpai, to 504,136 self-insured commercial members. In addition to providing direct care to persons enrolled in ghi's hmo products, hpmg physicians serve patients who are uninsured an”

“Cih was established in 1980 in response to the influx of southeast asians to minnesota after the end of the vietnam war. Initially called the hmong clinic, or the southeast asian clinic, the clinic now sees many more russian, african and burmese patients as immigration trends change minnesota's demographics. Since 1980, the program has expanded to include patients from more than 30 countries, with a staff of providers combining more than 100 years of experience in international health with extensive experience practicing both internationally and in the united states. The international mental health program was established in 1984, offering psychiatry, psychology, and group therapy. Ghi also employs a full time social worker and offers onsite interpreters for over 10 languages or language line interpreters via phone for virtually any language. The bilingual staff is dedicated to providing culturally competent health care to all patients. Additional services at cih include adult internal medicine primary care for non-english speaking and limited english speaking patients, medical issues/chronic illness, refugee and immigrant health care, medication evaluation and management, cross cultural health care consults, workers compensation exams for foreign born patients, and ins adjustment of status exams for families (civil surgeon on staff). In addition, cih offers same-day appointments for primary care, removing the need for most referrals to specialists within hpmg. Fruit and veggie rx ghi continued to expand the fruit and veggie prescription program (fruits and veggie rx). The number of fruit and vegetable "prescriptions" (vouchers) distributed by ghi increased from 16,550 in 2016 to 29,758 in 2018. The program is popular with families and ghi clinicians, with the message to try new fruits and vegetables. Ghi partners with cub foods in the twin cities metro area for the fruit and veggie voucher redemption. The distribution continues to grow each year, as does the number of locations where the vouchers are distributed. Expansion has included school-based clinics and ghi's well@work clinics. Health professional education healthpartners seeks to be the best and most trusted provider of health care, health promotion, health care financing and health care administration in the united states. Healthpartners' mission is to improve the health and well-being in partnership with our members, patients and community. In partnership with the university of minnesota medical school, the healthpartners institute (institute), a related organization of healthpartners, trains more than 500 resident physicians (130 ftes) annually in 22 programs at regions and hpmg. For a full report on the institute's 2018 research, please see the institute's form 990 return. Hospice and palliative care (hpc) ghi also operates healthpartners hospice and palliative care (hpc), a comprehensive care program for patients with a terminal diagnosis of six months or less. Hpc is medicare-certified and licensed by the state of minnesota. With an emphasis on enabling patients to remain in their homes for as long as possible, hospice teams include specially-trained hpmg physicians and nurses, social workers, home health aides, volunteers, chaplains and counselors who together provide, emotional, spiritual, and medical support. Healthpartners specialty center the healthpartners specialty center is comprised of two buildings - 401 phalen boulevard and 435 phalen boulevard - and contains hpmg clinics and regions hospital-based specialty departments that are all connected with the latest in electronic medical records and easily accessible digital x-rays. The location features more than 25 specialties on one campus. Ghi continued to provide free shuttle services from regions to the healthpartners specialty center for patients. Community building activities: triple aim healthpartners is working to transform health care by delivering outstanding care and service that is consistent wi”

“The health equity sponsor group: provides an organization-wide approach to measure and reduce health care disparities supports workforce development initiatives aimed at reinforcing cultural humility and respect, and increasing awareness of cultural issues improves care and service for persons who have limited english proficiency and patients who are hearing impaired involves patients and members in the planning and implementation of health equity approaches engages communities in strategies and partnerships to promote health equity provides recommendations and direction for data collection, analysis and reporting across the organization communicates progress on initiatives across the organization, and externally as appropriate community collaboration to gain insights and engage community we have built a culture of health equity in our organization through partnerships with community organizations. Our 2018 community health needs assessments and plans, conducted by each of our hospitals, framed health equity as an underlying driver for all of the hospital community health implementation plans. During that process, we engaged community members, public health, and our own clinicians to more deeply understand how we might impact the health of our community. Community partnership development is a core strategy in our work to promote health equity. We invest in six general areas: healthy children, mental health, nutrition and fitness, health equity, wellness and prevention and research and education. We also have larger, multi-year partnerships and campaigns with community-based organizations such as the makeitok campaign, powerup and little moments count to impact health determinants. Examples of other partners include organizations such as the wilder foundation/ st. Paul promise neighborhood, the ywca, northside achievement zone, nami, over 60 schools throughout the region, hunger solutions, and many others. Details on community benefit activities can be found on the healthpartners, inc. 990s. Equitable care champions in 2016, the equitable care champion was launched (previously known as the equitable care fellows program). "a champion is a person who voluntarily takes extraordinary interest in the adoption, implementation and success of a cause, policy or program throughout an organization. Also called change advocate, change agent or idea champion." this is how we define our equitable care champions across the healthpartners organization. Equitable care champions meets annually. Community benefit operations: community health needs assessment (chna) in 2015, a comprehensive, six-step community health needs assessment ("chna") collaboration was conducted for healthpartners and its hospitals (regions, lakeview hospital, hudson hospital, westfields hospital, amery regional medical center, and park nicollet methodist hospital) by community hospital consulting to determine the greatest health needs in the communities they serve. These hospitals serve similar communities and have overlapping study areas. The system's study area is defined as dakota, hennepin, ramsey, scott, and washington counties in minnesota and polk and st. Croix counties in wisconsin. Data elements regarding all seven counties in the system's study area are included in this report for comparison, and are also provided as an opportunity for the hospitals to work together to meet the needs identified in the overlapping counties. - demographics: chc consulting analyzed the most current demographics of residents in ramsey, washington, and dakota counties including: overall population, population by race and ethnicity, median age, median household income, poverty levels, food insecurity, and educational attainment. - health data collection: chc consulting analyzed the most current health data available pertaining to residents in ramsey, washington, and dakota counties including: mortality rates, chronic conditions, health behaviors, mental health, communicable diseases”

“Center for community health (cch) cch is a collaborative with health plans, hospitals and local public health agencies in the twin cities seven-county metro area in minnesota. Cch was formed for two purposes: 1) to align the processes of the community health needs assessments (chna) that are required of local public health agencies and hospitals; and 2) to collectively act to impact a shared public health priority. Cch has two work groups to accomplish those objectives. The collective action workgroup, whose name was changed to collective action making a collective impact (caci), was tasked with developing and implementing activities that address a shared public health priority area based on chnas. Their focus has been on mental health. The assessment alignment workgroup was tasked with assessing and developing a framework with common language and processes to guide members in conducting future community health needs assessments and allows for aggregate analysis of community health needs across the twin cities seven-county metro area. Additionally, the group will determine more effective use of data by identifying opportunities for collaborative data collection and analysis and eliminating barriers to data sharing among members. Its members include representatives from the hospitals, health plan, and public health sectors. The workgroups meet once each month and its members include representatives from the hospitals, health plan, and public health sectors. More about cch at www.mnmetrocch.org workplace diversity healthpartners actively seeks to hire a diverse staff and our recruitment team participated in several career fairs that focused on diversity. These events partner with local community organizations to promote their events and provide an opportunity for recruiters to meet with community members in an effort to increase diverse hiring. We are a premier sponsor of the university of st. Thomas college and twin cities black mba 'the forum on workplace inclusion,' which offers workshops on cultural competence and workplace diversity. This year, in addition to sponsorship, we served on the healthcare committee track and will be presenting for the upcoming 2019 forum on the topic of patient and member bias. Career fairs: anoka county technical college medical assistants career fair bloomington workforce center health career fair west saint paul workforce center hiring event deed veterans career fair dakota county technical college health career fair meetings/trainings/webinars: bitcon - blacks in technology conference mn recruiters conference - diversity and inclusion panel discussion make it msp - people of color cohort, getting real on workplace inclusion it ready - keeping the diversity in it caring for transgender patients and members welcoming disability as diversity in the workplace hire military veterans and gain more than just a new employee it's time to talkabout disability veteran recruiting - creating lasting impact through innovative solutions we worked with minneapolis public schools and their step-up achieve internship program to provide summer internships, mentoring and career coaching for eight diverse students in 2018. In addition, we offered training on microsoft outlook and resume building. To advance our work around lgbtq inclusion and equity, healthpartners was a sponsor of the outfront minnesota gala and had a strong presence at twin cities pride festival and parade in 2018. For our efforts on behalf of lgbtq people and issues, healthpartners received the twin cities champion of pride award. The organization promoted women's health with mobile mammography services, and transgender and gender services through support and promotion of healthpartners gender services clinic. Healthpartners also volunteered at the mn aids walk and the red ribbon ride. Healthpartners continues to be a sponsor of the ywca's it's time to talk event. This year, healthpartners sponsored the ywca's first it's time to act forum seri”

“Hpmg also hosted a food donation drive in partnership with the sheridan story, whose mission is to fight child hunger. Many colleagues who were not able to stay at the event contributed by dropping off bags of food. We collected over 2,000 pounds of food, which provides 435 children with a week's worth of food! The sheridan story began by providing one bag of non-perishable food to 27 kindergarteners each weekend in 2010. Today the sheridan story has seen incredible growth in its impact and now serves more than 5,400 students in 144 schools. Donations & volunteerism activities the food group healthpartners has had a wonderful partnership with the food group, a full-service food bank with over 200 hunger relief partners statewide providing free food, access to bulk food purchasing, and formalized food drive programs. The food group also offers food shelves free delivery, and outreach and advocacy opportunities. Unlike some food banks, the food group does not charge membership or handling fees to our network of hunger-relief programs. In 2018, healthpartners contributed 1,888 pounds of donations and $911.98. Thirty-three volunteers from healthpartners contributed a total of 67 hours and packed 12,130 pounds of food. Employee giving healthpartners' commitment to improving the health of the community extends beyond its doors. Addressing disparities is one of the reasons healthpartners has a commitment to workplace giving. A comprehensive employee giving campaign is a key way to provide a safety net of services and support to improve the health of the community. Twice a year, healthpartners employees have the opportunity to make donations that benefit healthpartners programs internally and their overall communities externally. These opportunities are the one (formerly sharing at work) campaign, which occurs during the spring and the community giving campaign, which occurs during the fall. In 2018, employees from healthpartners organizations donated $1,215,256 to the one campaign, which raises funds for patient care, research and medical education. The total included $500,000 that healthpartners matched. The one campaign also raised money for healthpartners hospice and palliative care and other organizations within healthpartners, including its six hospital foundations - regions hospital foundation, lakeview memorial hospital foundation, amery regional hospital foundation, hudson hospital foundation, and westfields hospital foundation. The funds raised through the community giving campaign supported eight local federations: greater twin cities united way, united way of washington county-east, st. Croix valley united way, and united way of central minnesota, community shares minnesota, community health charities-minnesota, community health fund and the minnesota environmental fund. In 2018, healthpartners' community giving campaign raised $274,061, which included employee pledges through automatic payroll deductions, $60,000 from healthpartners that was distributed to all federations, and additional employee fundraising dollars through special events across the organization. In-kind donations healthpartners supports and contributes to numerous non-profit organizations throughout the year by providing meeting space and donating used equipment. In 2018, healthpartners donated office supplies and furniture to local organizations including furnish office and home. In addition, healthpartners provides time and opportunities for employees to coordinate drives for food, clothing, books and toys on location at the work place. Toys for tots received boxes of toys from our annual toy drive over the holiday season. Organization awards and achievements in 2018, healthpartners received numerous awards that recognize our commitment to providing high-quality care, coverage and service for our members and patients and for our efforts to improve energy efficiency and reduce waste. The range of awards is astounding, from those that recognized top-notc”

“Equity transfer to an affiliated organization fasb 158 pension adjustment -41,885,434. Fasb 158 post retirement adjustment -765,458. Fasb 124 fair market valuation adjustment 168,915.”