Illinois DHS Background & Overview For Accountable Care Entity Solicitation

July 22, 2013
The document provides backgound about legislation directing the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) to move all Medicaid beneficiaries to managed care via risk-based contracts with a variety of care coordination organizations. The state began moving indivduals to managed care in 2009 in a demonstration called the Integrated Care Program. The next step is establishing “Accountable Care Entities” (ACE) as another new integrated delivery system. The ACE model is a key innovation that the state is incorporating in the State Health Care Innovation Plan, a multi-payer and multi-provider organization planning process called . . .