Integrated Care Management (ICM)
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1 vote)
added by Jessie Venegas
12
Jan
2009
Integrated Care Management (ICM) is innovative Texas Medicaid managed care program designed to address the complex care needs of people with disabilities or who are 65 or older. Specialized services, such as health-care coordination and long-term services and supports, will assist participants to perform their day-to-day activities. The ICM model will serve mainly adults who live in the Dallas and Tarrant service areas
- Goals Prevention:
- Funding for detection programs , Promotes adecuate understanding levels on the community about the importance of prevention , Focuses on social inequalities
- Goals Detection:
- Promotes early intervention through primary health care measures
- Goals Treatment:
- Develop basic elements for an integrated health system , Provides support health policies to facilitate the planning and integration at locally and regionally , Strengthens cooperative local groups to provide integral services , It facilitates the management by processes , Emphasizes the care of pluri-pathological and fragile patients
- Goals self-management:
- Refocuses the health system to support self-management , Promotes patient involvement in planning services , Improving support services with an emphasis on peer support, the disabled and carers , Allows home care , Allows remote support to patients and their carers from health professionals
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1/12/2007
Progress
12/01/2009
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Texas
Austin
Brown-Heatly Building 4900 N. Lamar Blvd.
