Illinois Ready to Pilot Medicaid Integrated Care Program in Five Counties

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Hot News On February 5, 2010, the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) released a request for proposals (RFP 22018541) seeking two managed care organizations (MCOs) for an Integrated Care Program (ICP) that provides integrated medical care services to approximately 40,000 seniors and adults with disabilities in suburban Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kankakee, and Will counties. The goal is to encourage greater coordination and preventive care among primary and specialty medical care provider organizations and those that provide home- and community-based services. Medicaid-eligible individuals in the targeted counties will be required . . .