Beaumont Health

“Paul lacasse and gerson cooper have a business relationship as they are board members or shared officers of a taxable entity within the beaumont health system.”

“The 2015 form 990 was subjected to a multi-step review process culminating in the provision of such form to all voting members of the beaumont health board of directors prior to its filing. The form 990 is prepared by beaumont's director of tax and reviewed by leadership within the finance department for completeness and correctness. The form 990 is then reviewed by the corporation's outside accounting firm. As the final step in the multi-level review process, a copy of the final version of the form 990 was provided to each voting member of beaumont health's governing body for their review before it was filed.”

“Beaumont health recognizes that it has an obligation to its patients, its payers, its designees and the communities it serves, through its supported organizations, to observe the highest level of integrity to ensure clinical, business and academic decision making is not compromised by financial or other relationships with industry. The corporate responsibility office coordinates a process of obtaining conflict of interest/disclosure of remuneration statements. At any time when a designee becomes involved in a relationship that is or may be perceived to be a conflict of interest, the designee must complete the conflict of interest/disclosure of remuneration statement and forward to the corporate responsibility officer. A conflict of interest or need to disclose remuneration may exist if a beaumont health designee or any member of their immediate family receives compensation in any form for services rendered in any capacity to any organization or individual that has any past, present or prospective business dealings with beaumont health, if such compensation might be reasonably construed as tending to prevent the designee from acting solely and wholly in the best interest of beaumont health.”

“Beaumont health has no employees. The individuals responsible for the day-to-day activities of the organization are employed by and compensated by the supported organizations. Each supported organization has written policies and procedures that were adopted by the board of directors to review compensation arrangements with certain persons. Each supported organization has committees that review the compensation of the officers and key employees of beaumont health. The committees review processes are designed to satisfy the procedural criteria necessary to qualify for the rebuttable presumption of reasonableness under the federal income tax law intermediate sanctions rules. The committees have expressly determined that the total compensation provided is reasonable, based on the review of the market data presented by an independent compensation consultant and the review of all other relevant facts and circumstances.”

“The organization will provide the listed documents to the public upon request.”

“Outside consulting fees: program service expenses 2,636,698. Management and general expenses 3,340,301. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 5,976,999. It hardware consulting: program service expenses 974,637. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 974,637. It software consulting: program service expenses 8,287,583. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 8,287,583.”

“In 2015, beaumont health, the parent organization and sole member of bostford general hospital, oakwood healthcare, inc., and william beaumont hospital, resolved to select one independent accounting firm for the system, and put the work out to bid with several qualified firms. After review of the firms' proposals and consideration of the qualifications of each, the final decision was made by the governing body of beaumont health.”