This brief from the Integrated Care Resource Center (ICRC) highlights best practices in disease management/care management programs and considers ways in which states can incorporate them into integrated care models like the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services financial alignment initiative for Medicare-Medicaid enrollees and other state initiatives for high-cost,high-need Medicaid beneficiaries.

This technical assistance brief is a product of the Integrated Care Resource Center made possible by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The Integrated Care Resource Center is a national initiative to help states improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of care for Medicaid’s high-need, high-cost beneficiaries. The state technical assistance activities provided within the Integrated Care Resource Center are coordinated by Mathematica Policy Research and the Center for Health Care Strategies.