Christus Trinity Clinic Texas

“Relationships between officers and directors: the members of the executive team all have business relationships with each other through their employment with related organizations.”

“Members or stockholders: christus trinity mother frances health system is the sole member of trinity clinic.”

“Decisions of governing body subject to approval by the member: the member has the authority to approve or disapprove certain matters previously approved by the board of directors.”

“Process to review the form 990: the organization engages an outside accounting firm to prepare form 990. Once prepared, the form is reviewed by the organization's internal accountants and a copy is made available to the board of directors upon their request.”

“Process to monitor and enforce conflict of interest policy: the board reviews and resolves, if necessary, any transactions as they arise throughout the year in accordance with policy standards. The organization's internal accountants distribute and review annual questionnaires to identify any potential conflicts of the board members, officers and the highest compensated employees. When a conflict of interest is identified, the individual is removed from discussions and cannot vote on any transactions involving the conflict.”

“Review of compensation of ceo, officer, or key employees: the organization uses compensation consultants and national compensation surveys to determine compensation of employees. Compensation is approved by the organization's governing body and ultimately approved by christus trinity mother frances health system. The most recent review of officer compensation was conducted in 2016 by laura lockhart, ctmfhs director of total rewards, and candy land, ctmfhs compensation analyst. All reviews are documented in the market adjustment files. The organization utilizes mgma national compensation surveys to determine the compensation of providers (physicians and advanced practice providers). On a bi-annual basis, the organization engages an outside, national provider compensation consulting firm to conduct a fair market value assessment of the total compensation of all providers.”

“Availability of documents: the organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request.”

“Compensation from related organizations: the governing board of christus trinity mother frances health system upon advice from nationally recognized compensation consultants, who periodically review all executive compensation, approved a deferred compensation plan that provides a 65% total retirement benefit for senior executives that serve 20 years or more. This program has both retention and non-competition clauses that create a risk of forfeiture. Deferred compensation is subject to a risk of forfeiture based on retention, non-competition and other contractual factors. Accruals of deferred compensation are not includible in w-2 compensation until paid. Other employee benefits include qualified pension plans, health, dental and life insurance plans, disability insurance, etc. Taxable expenses are included in the w-2 paid compensation salary amount.”

“1099s reported by organization: generally, the organization's forms 1099-misc are issued by a related organization, mother frances hospital regional health care center, which reports all forms 1099-misc for the entire system and allocates expenses to the appropriate related organization. The number of 1099s reported on part v, line 1a is the number of 1099s related to the filing organization.”

“Other changes in net assets: transfers from affiliate $20,155,871”

“Description:professional fees total fees:xxx-xx-xxxx”

“Description:direct care fees total fees:592092”

“Description:consulting total fees:63513”

“Description:contract labor total fees:177836”

“Description:purchased services total fees:1608490”

“Description:director fees total fees:1595449”

“Description:physician fees total fees:73714”

“Description:corporate allocation total fees:-5175605”