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What members want
Promoting suicide awareness
Electronic payments through ECHO Health to resume Sept. 2
Free CE: First responders and PTSD, Sept. 11
Specialize in maternal mental health?
Podcast: Navigating trauma-informed care
Progress notes vs. psychotherapy notes
Practitioners: Medical recordkeeping required
Screening for risk with Neuroflow
Magellan of PA earns NCQA Health Equity accreditation
MNC updates this fall

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What members want

Magellan cares about the members we serve, and we know you do, too. In the ongoing effort to improve the quality of our programs and services, we conduct an annual survey that gives members across the country an opportunity to weigh in on areas of service that they are hap . . .

Promoting suicide awareness

September marks Suicide Prevention Awareness Month – Explore resources for yourself, your practice and your patients During September and throughout the year, Magellan invites our network providers to join us in increasing awareness about the signs of suicide—in yourself a . . .

Electronic payments through ECHO Health to resume Sept. 2

We are pleased to announce that Magellan Healthcare will restore electronic claims payment capabilities via Optum Financial (formerly Change Healthcare) in collaboration with ECHO Health Inc. This reconnection will resume electronic payment processing as of Sept. 2, 2024. . . .

Free CE: First responders and PTSD, Sept. 11

Attend a virtual lunch-and-learn on Sept. 11 and earn continuing education credit! Join Magellan for our September lunch-and-learn as we welcome Charlie Health’s Shawnna Punteney, LPC, clinical director, and Anastasia Theisen, LMFT, clinical supervisor to discuss the impac . . .

Specialize in maternal mental health?

Maternal mental health options available when you update your practice information In support of increasing awareness of maternal mental health, Magellan gives you several options when sharing your specialties via the Provider Data Change Form. We encourage you to share in . . .

Podcast: Navigating trauma-informed care

Magellan senior medical director Steven Pratt, MD appeared on The Rehab podcast in June to discuss the complex interplay between trauma and behavioral healthcare. Substantially influenced by the groundbreaking Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study from the mid-1990s, D . . .

Progress notes vs. psychotherapy notes

(And why it matters when you get a request for records) As part of our administration of behavioral health benefits and/or claims adjudication on behalf of our customer health plans, it is Magellan's responsibility to implement and regularly conduct fraud, waste, abuse (FW . . .

Practitioners: Medical recordkeeping required

Recently, Magellan’s Special Investigation Unit (SIU) has reported several cases in which practitioners are not maintaining records for services rendered in a facility/nursing home setting. Remember to provide and bill only for services to members that are medically necess . . .

Screening for risk with Neuroflow

Magellan medical director profiled in health technology article Caroline Carney, MD, chief medical officer at Magellan Healthcare, recently was featured in a Fast Company article about Neuroflow, a technology platform that behavioral healthcare providers can use to track t . . .

Magellan of PA earns NCQA Health Equity accreditation

As shared in a recent Magellan press release, Magellan Behavioral Health of Pennsylvania, Inc. has earned a three-year Health Equity Accreditation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). The NCQA Health Equity Accreditation gives healthcare organizations . . .

MNC updates this fall

The 2024-2025 Magellan Care Guidelines will become effective Nov. 2, 2024. Stay tuned to our provider website, MagellanProvider.com, for its release. The 2023-2024 Magellan Care Guidelines will remain in effect until that time. Magellan* uses the MCG Behavioral Health Guid . . .

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