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Breaking the silence, saving lives

September marks Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Together, we can foster a culture of awareness and compassion that saves lives. Explore Magellan resources for yourself, your practice and your...

Featured: Featured Issue: Summer 2025
Breaking the silence, saving lives

Promoting suicide awareness

As a mental/behavioral health provider, you’re likely all too aware that suicide and substance use disorders are a serious public health concern. Help prevent suicide by promoting awareness with...

Featured: Featured Issue: Summer 2024
Promoting suicide awareness

Crisis resources are at your fingertips

Available in English and Spanish Sadly, nearly every day we are faced with traumatic events that impact people in our communities and across the U.S. Whether it be weather-related events, shootings...

Featured: Featured Issue: Fall 2024
Crisis resources are at your fingertips

MNC updates this fall

The 2024-2025 Magellan Care Guidelines became effective Nov. 2, 2024.

Featured: Featured Issue: Fall 2024
MNC updates this fall

Changes to HEDIS measures

The changes allow more appointment types to count toward follow-up rates, affording health plans a greater chance of meeting HEDIS measures and improving member outcomes.

Featured: Featured Issue: Fall 2024
Changes to HEDIS measures

Adding practice locations

Your Magellan provider agreement is state-specific. Billing for services in a state outside the provisions of your current Magellan agreement will result in denied claims.

Featured: Featured Issue: Fall 2024
Adding practice locations

Sparking holiday joy

Magellan joins with you in planning for emotional wellbeing and celebration during the holidays and beyond with these tips and resources.

Featured: Featured Issue: Fall 2024
Sparking holiday joy

Save time with Quick Claims in Availity Essentials

If you have regular patients or a repeatable set of claims, the simplified Quick Claims format may be just what you need.

Featured: Featured Issue: Fall 2024
Save time with Quick Claims in Availity Essentials

2025 handbook and supplements now online

Check out updates to the Magellan National Provider Handbook and several of the handbook supplements that pertain to EAP providers and to serving specific plans and/or states.

Featured: Featured Issue: Fall 2024
2025 handbook and supplements now online

Progress notes vs. psychotherapy notes

Compliance with documentation standards matters. Magellan’s Special Investigation Unit (SIU) discusses how progress and psychotherapy notes differ, and why it matters.

Featured: Featured Issue: Summer 2024
Progress notes vs. psychotherapy notes

Magellan of PA earns NCQA Health Equity accreditation

Magellan Behavioral Health of Pennsylvania earns NCQA Health Equity accreditation As shared in a recent Magellan press release, Magellan Behavioral Health of Pennsylvania, Inc. has earned a...

Featured: Featured Issue: Summer 2024
Magellan of PA earns NCQA Health Equity accreditation

Electronic payments through ECHO Health to resume Sept. 2

Electronic payments through ECHO Health to resume Sept. 2, 2024 We are pleased to announce that Magellan Healthcare will restore electronic claims payment capabilities via Optum Financial (formerly...

Featured: Featured Issue: Summer 2024
Electronic payments through ECHO Health to resume Sept. 2

Screening for risk with Neuroflow

NeuroFlow uses a type of artificial intelligence (AI) known as natural language processing to analyze members’ journal entries and alert providers about members who may be in urgent need or...

Featured: Featured Issue: Summer 2024
Screening for risk with Neuroflow

Practitioners: Medical recordkeeping required

In facility settings, practitioners who bill for their services using their own tax identification number as a separate entity are essentially operating as independent entities within the facility.

Featured: Featured Issue: Summer 2024
Practitioners: Medical recordkeeping required

Free CE: First responders and PTSD, Sept. 11

Register today then join Magellan and Charlie Health in September to discuss the impact of PTSD on first responders. CE offered for qualified attendees!

Featured: Featured Issue: Summer 2024
Free CE: First responders and PTSD, Sept. 11

MNC updates this fall

The 2024-2025 Magellan Care Guidelines will become effective later this year. Stay tuned to our provider website, MagellanProvider.com, for the release.

Featured: Featured Issue: Summer 2024
MNC updates this fall

Eating disorder treatment, virtually? Webinar Dec. 18

Register today then join Magellan and Equip in December to discuss how virtual treatment for eating disorders could benefit your patients. CE offered for qualified attendees!

Featured: Featured Issue: Fall 2024
Eating disorder treatment, virtually? Webinar Dec. 18

Podcast: Navigating trauma-informed care

"I think the idea of trauma awareness really helps us as an industry to be less judgmental and more able to make empathic connections," said Magellan's Steven Pratt, MD.

Featured: Featured Issue: Summer 2024
Podcast: Navigating trauma-informed care

Why measurement informed-care matters

"Am I making a difference with my clients?”Many clinicians often wonder. When progress feels invisible, consider how screening tools can help.

Featured: Featured Issue: Winter 2026
Why measurement informed-care matters

'Tis the season for giving...presence

The holiday season often comes wrapped in ribbons of joy—but also tangled in stress, unrealistic expectations and exhaustion. This year, what if there were a way to focus on reducing seasonal...

Featured: Featured Issue: Fall 2025
'Tis the season for giving...presence
MARCOM Awards

Provider Focus has won the MARCOM Gold Award in 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021