Integrated Care Collaboration
Improving Access to Healthcare in Central Texas

ICC Vision
The Central Texas health care delivery system strives for equality in access, quality, and choice. 

The ICC members operate as a regional, well managed system of care that maximizes and leverages resources.  The system is based on performance, outcomes and validated patient information which drives evidence-based programs/care evaluated on metrics. 

The system encompasses advocacy, access, communication, technology support, centralized data, cultural proficiency and collaborative working relationships among all partners, and enjoys widespread support across the region.

ICC Member Organizations
The collaboration is composed of delegates from each of the ICC member organizations. 

ICC Physician Advisory Board
The ICC Physician Advisory Board is an independent body that provides medical guidance and direction to the Integrated Care Collaboration’s Board and membership through recommendations regarding the functionality of the ICare system and the design of Care Coordination Programs.  

ICC Staff
For information about the ICC staff click HERE.

ICC History
The health care safety net providers in Travis County came together in spring of 1997 to form the Integrated 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.

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.