Connecthealthcare

“The form 990 is provided to the board of directors for review prior to filing as an attachment to the agenda of a board call or meeting.”

“The board members are required to attest to the conflict of interest policy annually, in conjunction with the Annual Meeting. The board is aware of the roles of board participants and would raise an issue if it seemed that a conflict of interest might arise.”

“Executive Director. The Executive Director compensation as a consultant was determined in 2014 for 2014-2015 at 70% time. In July 2015, the percent time was raised to 80%. The rate was not changed. The ED was previously employed as a Chief Information Officer at at rate about 150% of the current rate. In 2014, the rate for an ED was substantially in excess of his ConnectHealthcare rate. The ED worked for several years for no compensation from ConnectHealthcare to form the organization, obtain grants to support its startup and initial operation. He did receive nominal compensation from one of the grants. No other person was working for ConnectHealthcare in 2015.”

“Form 990s are available on the federal website. That is well-known and seems adequate.”

“The minutes of the board meetings are posted on our website for participants as are policies and other documents. All board members have a Dropbox account so that they may access key documents at will. Documents are also available upon request. Because the rationale for our 501(c)(3) status is provision of a function that would otherwise be the province of government, our constituents are provider participants. As we move to broad operational status, we will provide consumer (patient) access to more information. At the current time, we are working with provider organizations to arrange the population of data for access by other providers when a patient requires treatment, e.g., when a patient presents at an emergency room, so that appropriate care can be provided.”

“ConnectHealthcare began implementation of data exchange services loading eligibility data from Partnership HealthPlan of California, a Medi-Cal healthplan serving all 4 counties in our service area. We worked with all three hospital systems, St Joseph Health, NorthBay Healthcare and Adventist Health to begin putting in place ADT (admission discharge transfer) data feeds which provide substantial clinical data to the HIE. We are working with other providers to ready them to provide ADT feeds.”