About ICC

ICC Mission Statement

The ICC is an alliance of healthcare safety net providers that work together to increase access, improve quality and impact financing solutions to provide care to the region's medically indigent.

ICC Values

Respect
Trust
Integrity
Consensus
Data-driven decision making

ICC Profile

The strength of the ICC is that it is a unique organization established and led by all of the safety net providers in the three-county region that collaboratively addresses multiple healthcare issues to the benefit of the medically indigent and the community at large. The ICC was organized in 1997 by safety net providers in the Austin area. It was established to develop joint projects to increase access, improve quality, lower costs of providing care to the region's medically indigent and form a platform to create more coordinated and integrated system of services.

ICC History

The health care safety net providers in Travis County came together in spring of 1997 to form the Indigent Care Collaboration (ICC) to address access and financing issues and obstacles to care for low-income and uninsured residents of Central Texas. The intent of the ICC is to develop joint projects among members to increase access, improve quality, and lower the costs of providing care to the region's unfunded population.

Fundamental to the ICC approach is the inclusion of behavioral health as a core service and an understanding that a growing need for behavioral health services is at the base of a substantial proportion of primary care and other visits to health care providers. Similarly, dental health providers have been an integral part of the ICC since its inception. As a result of this "holistic" approach, what began initially as an informal forum quickly evolved into a platform to create a more coordinated and integrated system of services for this vulnerable population.

As the ICC began to develop programs, it became necessary to create a more formal structure in which to implement and monitor its efforts. As a result, the ICC was organized as a Texas Uniform Unincorporated Nonprofit Association (TUUNA). Members include health and social services providers, payers, and purchasers, including hospitals, health care networks, clinics, government agencies, non-profit organizations, individual providers, and others. In 2000 the ICC extended its membership into Williamson and Hays Counties. Each of these counties now has a representative on the Board of Directors.