Group Health Plan Inc

“Julie bunde and steven bunde are both officers at ghi and are married.”

“Ghi bylaws were amended and restated effective 1/1/2019 to match minnesota hmo statute language re member-elected directors. Removed petition process for member-elected directors. Clarified terms of services for directors and term limits. Restated composition and powers of the executive committee, described composition and role of quality committee and audit/compliance committee. Deleted section that required a medical board of governors. Updated provisions for indemnification and conflict of interest.”

“Ghi has associate 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 part of the healthpartners organization referred to collectively as "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, inc. (hpi) 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)(4) and is the parent entity of healthpartners organizations referred to collectively as "healthpartners". Healthpartners includes an array of tax-exempt and taxable organizations. 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 125 primary and specialty care medical facilities and dental facilities with practices in minnesota and western wisconsin serving more than 1.2 million patients. Healthpartners health plans contract with other primary and specialty medical facilities and dental facilities, physician groups, hospitals and related healthcare providers to serve plan members. Healthpartners also provides medical education and training to medical professionals and conducts research and fundraising activities that support the health care delivery system. 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 2019 are total cost of care measurements (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). 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 2019 are total”

“Healthpartners medical group (hpmg) & healthpartners dental group (hpdg) ghi provides coverage to members and services to patients through a broad network of hospitals and clinics, including those staffed by ghi employed physicians. Ghi's employed "staff model" physicians and dentists are known as healthpartners medical group (hpmg) and healthpartners dental group (hpdg) respectively. Hpmg is one of minnesota's largest medical groups. Hpmg employs approximately 600 full time equivalent physicians. Hpmg physicians practice in more than 36 medical and surgical specialties. For more than 30 years, hpdg has been recognized as a leader in innovative dentistry. Hpdg owns and operates 25 dental clinics and a dental specialty clinic with approximately 75 dentists and contracts with an additional 2,200 plus dentists in the healthpartners dental network to provide dental care. Hpdg dental clinics offer a wide range of individualized, innovative services from basic preventive dentistry to highly specialized care, including specialists in orthodontics, oral surgery, periodontics, prosthodontics and pediatric dentistry. Hpdg is a critical access provider of dental services; that means that a significant number of its patients are enrolled in a government program. Hpdg has the largest number of government program dental patients in the state. Hpdg remains committed to finding the most effective ways to improve our patients' dental health and is one of the few dental practices that conducts a risk assessment for patients, which allows us to create an individualized program of true preventive dental care based on patient needs and desires. The diversity of the patients we serve encouraged healthpartners to open a dental clinic in the heart of st. Paul in 2005. The healthpartners midway dental clinic focuses on serving new americans and provides assistance to patients enrolling in minnesota public programs. This clinic provides interpreter services and same-day access to urgent care and appointments. This model of care has been adopted by the minnesota legislature's "dental access advisory committee and was implemented at other clinics in the state. In addition to providing care to persons enrolled in ghi's hmo products, hpmg and hpdg work together to improve the health of the community by providing medical and dental care to a growing number of patients who are members of hpi, healthpartners insurance company (hpic), healthpartners administrators, inc. (hpai), unrelated managed care organizations, insured by commercial payers, self-pay patients and/or charity care patients. Hpmg and hpdg focus their efforts on compassionate, patient-centered care, ranging from preventive care to management of patients with acute and/or chronic conditions. In 2019, hpdg supported community health improvements through: board member - children's dental services community clinic (jan. - dec.) contributing $7,500 to the oral health alliance, which aims to improve oral health of minnesotans by broadening and developing stakeholder engagement and collaboration - healthpartners' dentists participate in monthly meetings. Hpdg's in-kind and monetary donations to community organizations include: northern dental access, contributing a total of $20,000 for the year 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, park nicollet clinic (pnc)and hutchinson health- employed physicians and six 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;”

“Healthpartners center for international health (cih) healthpartners center for international health clinic (cih) welcomes patients covered by most major insurance plans as well as self-pay patients. Cih is the largest multi-disciplinary health care program in minnesota for refugees, immigrants and non-english speaking families. 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 15 languages and 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, new arrival screening 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) we distributed increased from 29,758 in 2018 to 31,245 in 2019. The program is popular with families and our clinicians, with the message to try new fruits and vegetables. From june through july, kids having a well exam at healthpartners, park nicollet or stillwater medical group clinics received a $10 voucher redeemable for fresh fruits and vegetables at any cub foods, colburns, econo foods or family fresh market. Our distribution continues to grow each year, as does the number of locations were we will use the vouchers. Expansion has included school-based clinics and our 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, healthpartners institute (institute) trains more than 500 resident physicians (130 ftes) annually in 22 programs at regions and hpmg. For a full report on the institute's 2019 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 late”

“Affordable care act ghi worked alongside our members, patients and employer groups, to navigate the complexities of reform. Health care reform touches everyone, regardless of health, age or employment status. With webinars, training sessions, informational alerts and a reform-specific website, healthpartners brought reform into simple, practical clarity. Over the phone, online and face to face in our hospitals and clinics, we continue to have hundreds of one-on-one discussions to help individuals understand their options and make the choices that are best for them. Health care reform is a test of any organization's commitment to partnership. We continue to help colleagues understand health reform and mnsure, while equipping them to address member and patient questions. Health reform will continue to evolve, and our mission to improve health and well-being in partnership with those we serve will be as important as ever. We have been a trusted partner for more than 55 years and our commitment will never change. Healthy equity sponsor group our health equity sponsor group provides strategic leadership in planning and executing activities aimed at improving health equity through reducing health care disparities, improving access, and supporting an inclusive culture. The group aligns health equity activities across the organization through inclusion in annual plans, and supports tracking and monitoring of progress. The health equity sponsor group: provides 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 2019 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 to impact health determinants, such as the make it ok campaign, powerup and little moments count. Examples of 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. The champions are staff members and providers who receive expert training so they can becom”

“At healthpartners, a top priority is to make sure everyone has equal access to excellent and reliable health care and services, to work toward a day where every person, regardless of their social circumstances, has the chance to reach their best health. This requires us to identify and work towards eliminating health disparities, defined by the cdc as "preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence or inopportunity's to achieve optimal health experienced by socially disadvantaged racial, ethnic, and other population groups and communities." our commitment to health equity shaped our approach to our chna and will continue to shape our approach as we develop an implementation plan to address community health needs in partnership with our community. This includes considering factors such as race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, socioeconomic status and education levels when setting priorities and developing implementation plans. Next steps - implementation plan report our hospitals and healthpartners will continue to work collaboratively with the community to develop shared goals and actions that address the top five priority needs identified in the 2018 chna. These shared goals and actions will be presented in our implementation strategy, which is a required companion report to the chna. Each need addressed will be tailored to the hospital's programs, resources, priorities, plans and/or collaboration with governmental, non-profit or other health care organizations. While the healthpartners hospitals jointly prioritized systems-level needs, the u.s. Department of the treasury and the irs require a hospital organization to separately document the implementation strategy for each of its hospital facilities. The board of each hospital was required to approve the implementation strategy by may 2019. 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. In 2019 the cch board and committees developed a strategic plan to guide the organization's work for the next two years. The two-year plan can be found here. 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, specifically social connectedness. 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 with local community organizations help promote their events and provide an opportunity for recruiters to meet with community members in an effort to increase diverse hiring. Career fairs: hennepin technical college career fair rasmussen college career fair professional diversity network-mlk diversity career fairbethel career fair inver hills community college career fair mn deed career event st. Paul college career fair people of color career fair 13th annual vets career fair meetings/trainings/webinars: metro state university resume and career workshop for st”

“Enhanced tuition assistance program: through a partnership with eastside financial and lutheran social services, our enhanced tuition reimbursement program offers employees who reside within qualifying zip codes on st. Paul's east side a richer tuition benefit than our standard reimbursement program. This partnership helps support economic development of our diverse community and helps increase the diversity of health care workers at all levels of employment. Our program provides qualifying individuals with financial planning and career planning support and helps them establish the habit of developing a savings account. The participant is eligible for an additional $1,000 in tuition assistance (over and above our standard of $2,000) plus is eligible to receive the tuition assistance up front, eliminating the financial barrier and allowing the individual to begin their continued education sooner. Big brother big sisters twin cities: a new partnership emerged with big brothers big sisters twin cities. In december, our cross cultural leadership network hosted an event with big brothers big sisters twin cities where 20 "bigs and "littles" visited regions hospital and engaged with the sim center. To advance our work around lgbtq inclusion and equity, healthpartners was again a sponsor of the twin cities pride festival and parade in 2019. 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 minnesota aids walk. Healthpartners continued to be a sponsor of the ywca's it's time to talk event. Additionally, this year, healthpartners sponsored the ywca's first it's time to act forum series, serving as a speaker sponsor for robin di angelo's talk on white fragility to an audience of hundreds at westminster presbyterian church. This year marked the beginning of a new partnership with penumbra theater, a local theater company that creates professional productions focused on the african american experience. In june penumbra hosted an event for regions hospital foundation that featured infant and maternal mortality in the african american population and how our birth center is working to address this issue. Additionally, healthpartners is sponsoring the commissioning and development of a play written by harrison david rivers and directed by talvin wilks. The play, tentatively titled weathering, will explore the racial disparities in maternal mortality, and the adverse health outcomes for black women and their babies. Financial contributions healthpartners gives priority to funding partnerships and projects that are consistent with its strategic health promotion initiatives, focus on activities that prevent health problems, address the needs of people in our service area, and/or display understanding of the diverse needs of our population and indicate how they will reduce disparities in health outcomes. Healthpartners employees gave with their million dollar hearts to the community and our foundation missions through the community giving and one (formerly sharing at work) campaigns, as well as participating in fundraising walks. Additionally, healthpartners participated in community festivals and events providing outreach and education resources to the community on a variety of health topics, including lgbtq, mental health, immunizations and more. A detailed list of community benefit activities can be found on the healthpartners, inc. 990s. Drop-in volunteering & martin luther king, jr. Day of service healthpartners community relations organizes drop-in volunteering" events throughout the year to continue employee engagement with our community organizations. One-hour drop-in volunteering events are organized on site and allow employees to donate their time based on their schedule. Volunteer times range anywhere between five minutes to 120 minutes depending on the employee work”

“The leapfrog group awarded methodist hospital a grade a for patient safety. U.s. News and world report u.s. News and world report rank lakeview hospital, methodist hospital and regions hospital as among best hospitals in the minneapolis-st. Paul area. The national committee for quality assurance (ncqa) rates healthpartners among the highest-rated commercial health plans in the nation. The center for medicare and medicaid services granted a 5 out of 5 star rating for our medicare cost plans. Our medicare advantage maintained a 4.5 star rating, which is among the highest in the region. Healthpartners unitypoint health medicare advantage plans in iowa and illinois also received a 4.5 star rating. Cms health equity award. We are proud to be one of only two organizations in the nation to receive the health equity award from the centers for medicare and medicaid services in 2019.”

“Equity transfer from an affiliated organization 168,000,000. Fasb 158 pension adjustment 13,015,325. Fasb 158 post retirement adjustment 52,355,043. Fasb 124 fair market valuation adjustment 2,171,743.”