IEHP Wins Innovation Award For Integrating Physical & Behavioral Health Across The Public Health Care System

Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) recently won an innovation award for integrating physical and behavioral health across the public health care system to improve the health of low-income consumers. The award was given by the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS).

DHCS annually honors Medi-Cal health plans that it deems creative and innovative, seeking to highlight health plans’ best practices. In the case of IEHP, DHCS found that its program helped to improve consumers’ health outcomes while reducing their use of emergency rooms and urgent care clinics. IEHP provides this through its Behavioral Health Integration and Complex . . .