Enhanced Care Management (ECM)

The Behavioral Health & Wellness Department provides Enhanced Care Management (ECM) for Medi-Cal members with complex medical or social needs. ECM gives you a dedicated care manager to coordinate your health care, connect you with community resources, and help you reach your wellness goals. Services are personalized and can be provided where you feel most comfortable—at home, in the community, or by phone/video.

Enhanced Care Management makes it easier for members to get the right care at the right time in the right setting, and receive comprehensive care that goes beyond the doctor’s office or hospital.

How ECM Works:

  1. Meet your lead care manager – Your main contact for all your care needs
  2. Create a care plan together – Based on your health goals
  3. Get support your way – In person, at home, in the community, or by phone/video

How ECM Helps You

Enhanced Care Management aims to help older adults stay healthy by coordinating all aspects of their care, from primary and behavioral health to specialist and long-term support services.

  • Learn ways to stay healthy and enhance your health

  • Identify and manage your health conditions

  • Find and schedule appointments with doctors and specialists

  • Arrange transportation to your medical visits

  • Coordinate follow-up care after any hospital stays

  • Navigate food, housing, and social resources

  • Access needed community services

Who Qualifies?

ECM is a statewide Medi-Cal benefit that addresses the clinical and non-clinical needs of the highest-need Medi-Cal members by building trusting relationships with members and providing intensive coordination of health and health-related services.

  • Adults at risk of moving in or out of long-term care, skilled nursing, and rehabilitation facilities

  • People with frequent hospital or emergency room visits

  • Adults with serious behavioral health conditions or substance use disorders

  • Individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness

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