Mercy Care

“Mercy care has board members who work for dignity health and ascension care management. Linda hunt, doug watson, tammy wilcox and keith frey have a business relationship through employment with dignity health. Robert smith, janet walker, and tim moorhead have a business relationship with ascension care management.”

“Mercy care has a management agreement with aetna medicaid administrators to cover employee salary and benefit costs and general and administrative expenses incurred to operate the organization. Mercy care has no direct employees.”

“A member of the corporation has changed from carondelet health network to ascension care management. Ascension care management was part of a joint venture that owned and operated carondelet health network.”

“Mercy care is a nonprofit corporation whose sponsor (member) organizations are dignity health and ascension care management.”

“Both dignity health and ascension care management shall each have the power to nominate an even number of persons up to four (4) to the board of directors of this corporation.”

“Any action required or permitted to be taken pursuant to these articles by the corporate members shall be valid only if such action has received the appropriate internal approval of each voting member organization. It is acknowledged that the authority of the voting member to grant approval of the actions set forth above is, in certain instances, subject to restrictions which may require the members to obtain the approval of consent of others within the sponsoring organizations.”

“The form 990 is reviewed by the mercy care executive management, external accountants and the mercy care audit and compliance committee. A redacted version of the return is submitted to the mercy care board of directors for review.”

“Mercy care has a conflict of interest policy. All mercy care corporate members, board of directors and committees, and the corporate officers of mercy care shall prepare and submit to the filing officer on an annual basis, no later than july 31 of each calendar year, an annual conflicts of interest disclosure statement. The conflict of interest must be fully disclosed to the board or committee prior to consideration of an affected business transaction. The interested person will be counted in determining the presence of a quorum, but will not be eligible to vote on the contract or transaction. The interested person may participate in discussions regarding the affected business transaction, but will be excused from the meeting prior to completion of the discussion, and does not return until discussion and voting on the matter have been concluded.”

“Mercy care contracts with aetna medicaid administrators to provide all management services for mercy care. This entity does not have any direct employees.”

“The governing documents, conflict of interest policy, audited financial statements and form 990 is available to the public upon request.”

“Part iii, line 2 - southwest catholic health network merged with mercy maricopa integrated care (mmic) and formed a combined organization operating as mercy care. Mercy care assumed the operations of mmic which was formed to provide physical and behavioral health care services on an integrated basis to medicaid eligible adults with serious mental illness and operate as the regional behavioral health agency to coordinate the delivery of health care services to eligible persons in maricopa county, arizona. In conjunction with the merger, mercy care acquired the non-controlling interest of the maricopa county special health care district which had been one of the initial sponsors of mmic. Mercy care provides physical and behavioral healthcare services through the arizona health care cost containment system (ahcccs) program in the central and south regions of arizona. The ahcccs complete care program integrates physical and behavioral health care contracts under managed care plans for the majority of the ahcccs members. The integrated delivery model offers a more cohesive health care system for members incentivizing quality health care outcomes with value based purchasing, and leveraged health information technology for improved care coordination. Additionally, integrated physical health and behavioral healthcare contracts will drive strategic, innovative health care initiatives forward.”

“After district (initial non-controlling member) notified mercy maricopa integrated care that it elected to exercise its put option, its remaining non-controlling interest was reclassified from non-controlling to controlling net assets without restriction. 6,877,275.”