SCHEDULE O
(Form 990 or 990-EZ)

Department of the Treasury
Internal Revenue Service
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OMB No. 1545-0047
2014
Open to Public
Inspection
Name of the organization
HEALTH QUEST HOME CARE (CERTIFIED)
 
Employer identification number

14-1788412
Return Reference Explanation
SCHEDULE R PART II RELATED TAX EXEMPT ORGANIZAIONS Entity Tax ID# Primary Activity Legal Domicile Exempt Code Status Public Charity Status Direct controlling Entity Vassar Brothers Medical Center 14-1338586 Hospital NY 501c3 Box 3 HQ The Foundation for Vassar Brothers Medical Center 14-1736429 Fundraising NY 501c3 Box 11 HQ Riverside Diversified Services, Inc (Parent) 14-1675545 Education NY 501c3 Box 11 HQ Alamo Ambulance Service, Inc 14-1745417 Transport NY 501c3 Box 11 HQ Health Quest Home Care, Inc (Certified) 14-1788412 Home Health NY 501c3 Box 11 HQ Health Quest Home Care, Inc (Licensed) 14-1788410 Home Health NY 501c3 Box 11 HQ Northern Duchess Hospital 14-1338467 Hospital NY 501c3 Box 3 HQ Northern Dutchess Residential Health Care Facility 22-3129608 Nursing Home NY 501c3 Box 11 HQ NDH Foundation 14-1776208 Fundraising NY 501c3 Box 11 HQ Putnam Hospital Center 14-6019179 Hospital NY 501c3 Box 3 HQ Putnam Hospital Center Foundation 06-1399319 Fundraising NY 501c3 Box 11 HQ Health Quest Medical Practice, PC 56-2669185 Medical Care NY 501c3 Box 3 HQ Health Quest Urgent Medical Practice, PC 80-0152047 Urgent Care NY 501c3 Box 3 HQ Health Serve Information Technologies, LLC 14-1797086 IT Support NY 501c3 Box 3 HQ Health Quest Laboratory Support Services, LLC 45-4370644 Medical Laboratory NY 501c3 Box 3 HQ One Columbia Street, LLC 46-1626016 Real Estate Mgmt NY 501c3 Box 3 HQ Hudson Valley Cardiovasular Practice, PC 46-3756713 Medical Care NY 501c3 Box 3 HQ
FORM 990 PART VI LINE 2, 6, 7A AND 7B GOVERNING LINE 2 - HERBERT REDL AND KARI REDL-DANIELS WERE MEMBERS OF THE AFFILIATE BOARD, AND HAVE A FAMILY RELATIONSHIP. LINE 6 - THE SOLE MEMBER OF HVHC IS HEALTH QUEST SYSTEMS INC. LINE 7A - With the exception of Ex Officio Trustees, candidates for election to the Board shall be nominated and elected in the following manner: The Committee shall nominate such candidates by approval of a majority vote of the Board. Any candidate nominated by the Committee must be approved by Majority Vote of the Board in order to be elected as a Trustee. LINE 7B - Except as otherwise required by law, the Certificate of Incorporation, or these Bylaws, an action approved by Majority Vote of the Board shall be the act of the Board.
FORM 990 PART VI SECTION B LINES 11B, 12C, 15A AND 15B POLICIES LINE 11B - PRIOR TO FILING, A DRAFT OF THE COMPLETED FORM 990 WAS REVIEWED BY INTERNAL MANAGEMENT. AFTER THAT REVIEW WAS COMPLETE, THE FORM 990 WAS PROVIDED TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF HQ (PARENT OF THE FILING ORGANIZATION) FOR ADDITIONAL REVIEW AND COMMENT. CONTACT INFORMATION WAS PROVIDED SHOULD ANY QUESTIONS ARISE. LINE 12C - ALL POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST ARE REVIEWED BY THE HEALTH QUEST BUSINESS ETHICS COMMITTEE ON BEHLF OF THE AFFILIATE. IN ADDITION, CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENTS ARE COMPLETED BY BOARD MEMBERS AND KEY EMPLOYEES ON AN ANNUAL BASIS AND REVIEWED BY THE HEALTH QUEST CORPORATE COMPLAINCE DEPARTMENT. LINE 15A/B - COMPENSATION FOR THE CEO, TOP MANAGEMENT AND OTHER KEY EMPLOYEES IS ESTABLISHED BY THE HEALTH QUEST EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION COMMITTEE BASED ON INFORMATION AND SUPPORT OF AN INDEPENDENT THIRD PARTY.
FORM 990 PART VI SECTION C LINE 19 DISCLOSURE LINE 19 - POLICIES AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR HVHC ARE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC UPON REQUEST. THE DOCUMENTS ARE PROVIDED EITHER ELECTRONICALLY OR PAPER COPIES. IN ADDITION, CERTAIN FINANCIAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON VARIOUS WEBSITES DUE TO REGULATORY FILINGS SUCH AS THE 990 AND BOND HOLDER AGREEMENTS.
SCHEDULE R, PART V, LINE 2(1) ALLOCATION METHODOLOGY OF HQ Health Quest Systems, Inc Allocation of Support Services/Shared Expenses/Cash Funding General: The following services are considered shared services for Health Quest affiliates and the cost to provide these services are allocated to each entity which benefits from the service based on a pre defined allocation methodology: 1. Specialty Staffing a. VBMC Surgical b. Radiology c. Oncology d. VBMC Sleep Lab e. PT/OT/ST f. Cardiac Rehab 2. Clinical Management a. Emergency Room b. Pharmacy c. Cardiac d. Oncology 3. Revenue Cycle including health information management, budgets and reimbursement, revenue cycle, system business office, patient access oversight, financial clearance center, managed care and decision support 4. Facilities including courier service, construction, property management, facility operations, food service management and security 5. Business Development including strategic planning, marketing and public relations, answering service and community education 6. Corporate Finance including accounts payable, payroll, general accounting, purchasing, supply chain and mailroom, practice management billing and management engineering 7. Internal Audit and Compliance 8. Practice management operations including physician recruitment, physician management and centralized scheduling 9. Human Resources and learning and development 10. Administrative including Executive office, Hospital Support and risk management 11. Legal Counsel 12. Information Technology and Medical Technology Services (MTS) Description of Services: 1. Specialty staffing a. Provides non union staffing services for various specialties to the hospitals, offsite ancillary locations and the Fishkill Medical Mall 2. Clinical management includes management oversight to system consolidated clinical services 3. Revenue Cycle - a. Health Information Management functions includes coding and transcription of medical records for all 3 hospitals b. Budget functions include preparation of annual budgets, variance reporting and maintenance of the budget module Reimbursement functions include preparation of annual cost reports, analysis of third party rate accounts and third party audits c. Revenue cycle functions include charge master analysis and development of revenue producing charges, compliance with CPT coding and establishment of appropriate charges d. System business office services includes producing claims for third party payers and private pay patients, payment processing, periodic reporting, accounts receivable analysis, charity care application process, denial management, collection and follow up for the hospitals. Patient access and financial clearance center includes oversight of all centralized registration areas at the hospitals and pre-authorization for numerous hospital services to insure compliance with third party regulations e. Managed Care functions include contract negotiations and analysis of contract terms f. Decision Support functions include cost accounting reporting, maintenance of HBI (Horizon Business Insight) reporting and the contract management system 4. Facilities - a. Courier service provides delivery services internally throughout the HQ system and bank deposit drop offs b. Construction and property management functions include contracting services for Health Quest projects and property management of all HQ facilities c. Facility operations include management oversight of the engineering departments for the hospitals d. Food Service management includes management oversight of food and nutrition departments for the hospitals e. Security functions include management oversight of all facilities to ensure the safest environment 5. Business Development - a. Strategic Planning functions include CON submissions, market data analysis and assistance with business plans b. Marketing includes advertising services, coordination of joint Health Quest advertisements and reduction of expenses associated with larger campaigns c. Public relations functions include coordination of Health Quest communication to external customers, patients and media d. Oversight of the outsourced answering services for physicians affiliated with the hospitals and HQMP e. Community education functions include training classes specific to life saving techniques 6. Finance - a. Accounts payable functions include scheduling vendor payments, insuring flow of goods and services, maintaining days cash on hand goals and maintaining days in accounts payable b. Payroll functions include biweekly employee payments and tax filings in accordance with Human Resources and Payroll policies c. General Accounting functions include preparation of financial statements, account analysis, contract reconciliation, tax filings, investment coordination, insurance coordination and coordination of internal and external audit functions d. Purchasing, supply chain and mailroom functions include procurement services, contract negotiations, price negotiations, capital purchase negotiations, management/distribution of hospital inventory, and central mailroom management e. Practice management billing functions include producing all claims for third party payers and private pay patients, payment processing, periodic reporting, accounts receivable analysis, charity care application process, denial management, collection and follow up services for all employed HQ physicians f. Management Engineering functions include evaluating each area within HQ to ensure compliance with various productivity benchmarks optimizing staffing ratios 7. Internal Audit and Compliance includes oversight of the corporate compliance program, internal audit, HIPAA compliance and contract review and compliance 8. Human Resource and learning and development functions include recruitment, compensation, benefit administration and employee training 9. Physician management operations functions include oversight of all HQ physician practices, physician recruitment functions, and the centralized scheduling office 10. Administrative functions include oversight of the Health Quest system, hospital management and risk management 11. Legal Counsel functions include internal legal services for HQ and coordination of all outsourced legal initiatives 12. Information Technology and MTS - a. IT provides information technology support for all applications and telephony support within HQ. In addition provides project management services for all new and upgrades to current IT applications. b. MTS/Biomed includes technical services provided to each hospital for equipment repair and maintenance Shared Expenses: In addition to services provided by support departments, certain insurance policies are consolidated for all Health Quest entities. These include property insurance, travel, crime, environmental, cyber risk and Directors and Officers insurance. Allocation Methodology: Net Revenue - lab management, budgets, revenue cycle, managed care, decision support, all facilities (excluding construction), business development, general accounting, management engineering, internal audit and compliance, executive office, legal, information technology and MTS # of visits/procedures - staffing specialties Historical trends - health information management, clinical management and hospital support Cash collections - patient accounting and the financial clearance center # of FTE's - payroll and human resources Non payroll expenses - accounts payable and purchasing Project based - construction # of FTE's allocated to physician sites - Practice management billing, operations and physician practice management System Benefits: 1. Financial planning 2. Revenue enhancement 3. Improved cash collections 4. Enhanced managed care contract rates 5. Optimized medical records coding 6. Savings for supplies, contracts, insurance and capital purchases 7. Staffing reduction through shared services 8. Enhanced employee benefit programs 7. Staffing reduction through shared services 8. Enhanced employee benefit programs
For Paperwork Reduction Act Notice, see the Instructions for Form 990 or 990-EZ.
Cat. No. 51056K
Schedule O (Form 990 or 990-EZ) 2014

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