Mississippi Physician Health Program
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 640629295
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Ridgeland, MS, USA
- Phone
- 6018536733
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Treatment Only
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $777,536
- Expenses
- $857,994
- Assets
- $667,917
- Liabilities
- $98,185
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOTT HAMBLETON MD (PRESIDENT)
- CLAUDE BRUNSON MD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MSMA)
- SCOTT DENNIS (CEO, MPCN)
Highest reported compensation
- CLAUDE BRUNSON MD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MSMA): $382,901 total reported compensation
- SCOTT DENNIS (CEO, MPCN): $359,017 total reported compensation
- JAMES ANTHONY CLOY MD (MPHP MEDICAL DIRECTOR): $262,519 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Mississippi physician health program is Mississippi's impaired healthcare professionals program and will become one of the nation's premier organizations that promote research, education, prevention, early identification, intervention, treatment and rehabilitation of doctors who may be impaired or at risk of impairment because of chemical dependency, psychiatric illness or other potentially impairing conditions. We will identify, intervene upon, treat and rehabilitate chemically dependent healthcare professionals with compassion, dignity, and respect. We will educate the public and the healthcare profession of our state about chemical dependency. We will expand the body of basic knowledge about chemical dependency through research. We will actively seek methods to prevent chemical dependency. We will pursue adequate funding and resources to enable us to complete this mission.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Mississippi physician health program is Mississippi's impaired physicians program and is one of the nation's premier organizations that promote research, education, prevention, early identification, intervention, treatment and rehabilitation of doctors who may be impaired or at risk of impairment because of substance use, psychiatric illness or other potentially impairing conditions. We will identify, intervene upon, treat and rehabilitate physicians with compassion, dignity, and respect. We will educate the public and the healthcare profession of our state about substance use disorders. We will expand the body of basic knowledge about substance use disorders through research. We will actively seek methods to prevent substance use disorders. We will pursue adequate funding and resources to enable us to complete this mission.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 71% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.9%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 61.1%; rating input score 61
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.3%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.1%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.9% of revenue deployed · 61.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $524K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $383K · 15 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 6 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.