Program areas at Centracare Clinic
Medical professional services Centracare Clinic (ccc) provides a wide range of primary care and specialty medical services through a multi specialty Clinic structure as the physician component of Centracare health, an integrated health care delivery system.ccc's formally adopted core values are:patient centered: serving patients above all.integrity: adhering to honest and ethical practices.collaboration: working jointly with others to improve health and health care.compassion: serving all who seek our care with kindness, dignity and respect.stewardship: ensuring responsible use of all resources to best serve our communities. Ccc achieves these values through services provided by a team of physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, dieticians, educators and other health care professionals. Many services are provided to the growing diverse population in central Minnesota. Ccc also provides the professional staffing for designated rural health clinics and health manpower shortage areas served by Centracare health in rural Minnesota. The major activites provided to the community include Clinic visits, hospital visits, nursing home vistis, surgical and minor surgical visits, laboratory visits, immunizations and injections, radiology tests, and special procedures.
Ccc supports a wide variety of patients who express a willingness to pay but are unable to do so due to socioeconomic factors. Additionally ccc records bad debt at times when it is unable to receive payment for services provided. For the year ended june 30, 2023, $7,530,217 of uncompensated care was provided. $846,483 of charity care was provided under the organization's financial assistance program. The financial assistance program provides patients willing, but unable to pay, to have patient balances otherwise due, reduced or waived. The financial assistance program ensures the patients of the communities served by ccc have access to quality medical care services regardless of their ability to pay. Ccc provides services to all in need and at times patient account balances go unpaid, known as bad debt, these bad debt amount for the year ended june 30, 2023 totaled $6,683,734.
Ccc participates in a wide variety of governmental healthcare programs including: medicare, medicaid, Minnesota care, Minnesota general assistance and programs for military, veterans and their families. For the year ended june 30, 2023, ccc incurred costs of $136,443,156 in excess of payments received for services to patients covered under these programs and taxes and fees relating to these programs.governmental healthcare programs provider reimbursement amounts are below the costs the provider incurs to provide these servicesmedicare costs in excess of payments $81,697,921medicaid costs in excess of payments $41,147,827surcharges, fees and minnesotacare tax $2,768,304military costs in excess of payments $10,829,104