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Share your ethnic background, language

Fact: 75% of Magellan providers currently share their ethnic origin with members.

Featured: Featured Issue: Winter 2026
Share your ethnic background, language

Re-diagnosis of PDD or autism not required

Effective Jan. 1, 2026, Assembly Bill 951 (AB 951) prohibits commercial health plans from requiring a member previously diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) or autism to receive a...

Re-diagnosis of PDD or autism not required

Add specialties in support LGBTQIA+ members

Magellan gives you additional options when sharing your specialties with potential clients who identify as LGBTQIA+. It's easy (we show you how).

Featured: Featured Issue: Winter 2025
Add specialties in support LGBTQIA+ members

It's a win-win

When Magellan network providers give our communications, such this Provider Focus newsletter, a high score, it means the world to us.

Featured: Featured Issue: Winter 2025
It's a win-win

Metabolic monitoring for patients with schizophrenia

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heart disease and diabetes are among the top 10 leading causes of death in the United States. Persons with serious mental illness...

Featured: Featured Issue: Spring 2025
Metabolic monitoring for patients with schizophrenia

New podcast episode is now available

A new episode of Magellan Behavioral Health of Pennsylvania’s Behavioral Health Matters podcast is here. It features a timely conversation on mindfulness and social-emotional resiliency.

New podcast episode is now available

Billing targeted case management

Behavioral health targeted case management (TCM) supports members with complex needs by coordinating services across systems of care. Because TCM is time-based and documentation-driven, accurate...

Billing targeted case management

Providers' strong EAP record practices continue

Recent Employee Assistance Program (EAP) record reviews show that providers continue to deliver clear, consistent and high‑quality documentation that supports effective short‑term care and...

Providers' strong EAP record practices continue

Treatment record review finishes strong

Records Magellan reviewed from 2025 show consistent quality across most measures, with continued focus needed on care coordination and client rights.

Treatment record review finishes strong

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

MNC updates this fall

Medical necessity criteria updates to occur in fall 2026 The 2026-2027 Magellan Care Guidelines will become effective later this year. Stay tuned to our provider website, MagellanProvider.com, for...

Featured: Featured Issue: Spring 2026
MNC updates this fall

Observing American Heart Month

Even brief, supportive conversations about heart health can reinforce whole-person care and help members feel seen beyond their diagnosis.

Featured: Featured Issue: Winter 2026
Observing American Heart Month

Interested in providing EAP services?

Receive referrals for additional Magellan members! Join our EAP network, which may include opportunities to serve individuals in our Employer, Federal, Critical Incident Response, and other...

Featured: Featured Issue: Winter 2026
Interested in providing EAP services?

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

MNC updates this fall

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

Featured: Featured Issue: Fall 2024
MNC updates this fall

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

Language assistance available

Magellan provides language assistance services at no cost. Do you work with clients with limited English proficiency (LEP)? Or perhaps you’d like to, but you are concerned the language barrier...

Language assistance available

Patient safety depends on coordinating care

Ways YOU can help improve care coordination in 2026 Each year, Human Affairs International of California (HAI-CA)* conducts a patient safety survey with our network providers. If you completed our...

Patient safety depends on coordinating care

Join Magellan's EAP network

Receive additional member referrals. Let us know if you’d like to serve Magellan Employer Assistance Program (EAP) members, which may include individuals in our Employer, Federal, Critical Incident...

Join Magellan's EAP network

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

Where to find information on screening documentation

For depression, tobacco use and suicide safety planning Magellan Behavioral Health of Pennsylvania is re-sharing key reminders on behavioral health screening code guidance originally issued in...

Where to find information on screening documentation

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

Add specialties in support LGBTQIA+ members

Add specialties to support LGBTQIA+ members If you specialize in any of the following areas, including: LGBTQIA+, gender identity, sexual dysphoria, and transgender, we need YOU to let us know....

Add specialties in support LGBTQIA+ members

Magellan to manage Early Childhood Support and Services program

Magellan to manage Early Childhood Support and Services program in Louisiana Magellan Complete Care of Louisiana is delighted to announce that it has been awarded the Early Childhood Support and...

Magellan to manage Early Childhood Support and Services program

You are not alone on complex cases

Magellan offers timely case management and peer support When you determine that a patient you’re treating has a particularly challenging set of needs, which can include behavioral health symptoms...

You are not alone on complex cases

Outpatient provider dashboard gets makeover

Beginning in 2025, Magellan’s* network providers in California that qualify for an outpatient dashboard will notice several changes aimed at better measuring quality metrics for our provider...

Outpatient provider dashboard gets makeover

Refer Sharp Health Plan members to in-network labs

Laboratory expenses are one of the biggest contributors to a patient’s healthcare costs. That’s why Magellan* and our health plan client, Sharp Health Plan, ask you to refer members to an...

Refer Sharp Health Plan members to in-network labs

Ria Health offers alcohol use disorder treatment

Looking to help commercial Blue Shield of California or Sharp Health Plan members navigate their options for managing a primary alcohol use disorder diagnosis? Ria Health is a virtual alcohol...

Ria Health offers alcohol use disorder treatment

Plan-specific material revised

Be sure to visit the Plan-Specific Information page on our provider website for provider materials – such as handbook supplements and quick reference guides – that are specific to regions where you...

Plan-specific material revised

Devoted Health members are in network

As of Jan. 1, 2025, Magellan will manage behavioral health benefits for Devoted Health Medicare Advantage members in additional states and counties. States with Devoted Health plan members include...

Devoted Health members are in network

TX Medicaid: Are your locations correct in PEMS?

Keeping your practice information up to date is essential to ensuring appropriate referrals, appointment availability and accurate and timely claims processing. This is why, in addition to...

TX Medicaid: Are your locations correct in PEMS?

EAP handbook supplement updated for 2025

In addition to a revised Magellan National Provider Handbook, you’ll find the updated handbook supplement for Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providers – in effect for 2025 – on our provider...

EAP handbook supplement updated for 2025

Your efforts are vital to members' care and safety

How coordinating with other providers offers best-practice care to Magellan members An essential element in the quality care you provide to Magellan members is coordinating services among members’...

Your efforts are vital to members' care and safety

Collaboration helps improve quality of care

Magellan of Louisiana collaborates with providers to investigate and jointly address quality-of-care concerns. The Quality of Care Concern (QOCC) Work Group, under the leadership of Magellan’s...

Collaboration helps improve quality of care

Updated Louisiana CSoC handbook supplement online

The updated Louisiana Coordinated System of Care supplement (PDF) is available online at MagellanProvider.com. Contracted providers must follow the policies and procedures outlined in handbook...

Updated Louisiana CSoC handbook supplement online

Provider Town Hall recording from Sept. 17 now available

Magellan Behavioral Health of Pennsylvania wishes to thank everyone who participated in our most recent virtual Provider Town Hall on Sept 17, 2024. If you were unable to attend or wish to refer to...

Provider Town Hall recording from Sept. 17 now available

Starting the conversation about MAT

Starting the conversation about medication-assisted treatment for alcohol Magellan Behavioral Health of Pennsylvania and our county partners believe we need to change the mindset that the only way...

Starting the conversation about MAT

Supporting those living with disabilities

Tune into the latest podcast on resources to support living with disabilities A new episode of Magellan Behavioral Health of Pennsylvania’s Behavioral Health Matters podcast is now available for...

Supporting those living with disabilities

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

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
MARCOM Awards

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