Important Announcements

Nondiscrimination Statement Update

Boston Medical Center Health System complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, national origin (including limited English proficiency and primary language), religion, culture, physical or mental disabilities, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity and/or expression. BMCHS provides free aids and services to people with disabilities and free language services to people whose primary language is not English.

To see our full nondiscrimination statement, click here.

Campus Construction Update

Starting September 14, we’re closing the Menino building lobby entrance. This, along with the ongoing Yawkey building entrance closure, will help us bring you an even better campus experience that matches the exceptional care you've come to expect. Please enter the Menino and Yawkey buildings through the Moakley building, and make sure to leave extra time to get to your appointment. Thank you for your patience. 

Click here to learn more about our campus redesign. 

Overview

BMC uses wire payments to pay foreign entities. Departments must open a non-subrecipient Purchase Order (PO), for expenses they plan to pay via wire, prior to being invoiced for the goods or services. Research Operations (RO) opens POs for executed subrecipient agreements to be paid via wire.

Department Process for Wire Payment Requests

Non-subrecipient Expenses

  • Department administrator (DA) completes wire payment request form, providing the:
    • Invoice from vendor in US dollars
    • PO number, and
    • Vendor bank account information on bank letterhead (BMC requires this for all wire payments as they are risky transactions; we have little recourse to retrieve any payment that is issued incorrectly).
  • Wire Transfer Request Form: 
    • DA submits the above documentation to BMCsubinvoice@bmc.org for review and approval
    • Once approved by Sponsored Programs Finance (SPF), the wire request is routed to Treasury for payment, and
    • Treasury completes the wire payment and sends back confirmation to SPF and department. Treasury will not complete any request for wire payments on sponsored programs that does not follow this approval path.

Foreign Subrecipient Invoice Payment

  • The department or subrecipient submits an invoice to BMCsubinvoice@bmc.org
  • SPF completes the wire transfer form and sends it, along with the invoice, to Accounts Payable (AP) 
  • AP applies the invoice to the PO and routes the invoice via the Infor approval path to SPF, the principal investigator/program director (PI/PD), and DA
  • Once the invoice has been fully approved in Infor, SPF submits the wire payment request to Treasury and copies the DA on the email, and
  • Treasury completes the wire payment and sends back confirmation to SPF and the DA. 

All wire payments are submitted to Treasury through BMCsubinvoice@bmc.org, creating a single route for approved wire payments to Treasury for sponsored programs and assisting control against duplicate payments.