Enhanced Care Management (ECM) and Community Supports

Implementation of Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports requires significant investments in care management capabilities, infrastructure, information technology and data exchange, and workforce capacity at both the managed care plan and provider levels.

The DHCS CalAIM Incentive Program (IPP) is a component of CalAIM to support the development of a robust Medi-Cal network to deliver ECM and Community Supports services.

The Alliance is administering this incentive funding to support our local provider network to address gaps and build infrastructure and capacity for ECM and Community Supports services. IPP cannot overlap with other DHCS incentive funding for ECM and Community Supports, such as CITED (see below).

To facilitate incentive funding, the Alliance is intaking information from providers about their identified infrastructure and capacity needs via the ECM/CS Certification Tool.

IPP funding for Santa Cruz and Monterey counties has been expended. We are no longer accepting IPP funding proposals from ECM/CS providers in these counties.

If you have questions, please email the Alliance at [email protected].

CITED is a grant program administered by DHCS that provides funding to enable the transition, expansion and development of ECM and Community Supports capacity and infrastructure.

CITED applicants must be contracted with a managed care plan for ECM and/or Community Supports services and are encouraged to coordinate applications with local organizations they contract with or intend to contract with to provide ECM and/or Community Supports services.

Applicants who wish to receive CITED funding must submit an application indicating how they intend to use CITED funding. Find more information on the DHCS website.