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The new, enhanced online EASI Form is here

Magellan is enhancing provider portal applications to make it easier for providers to complete essential tasks securely. One such task? Requesting reimbursement for EAP services. Now you have...

The new, enhanced online EASI Form is here

Louisiana CSoC news & events

Visit the Louisiana CSoC website for recent communications and upcoming events.

Louisiana CSoC news & events

Magellan of PA provider announcements

Visit the Magellan of PA website for recent communications, upcoming events and more.

Magellan of PA provider announcements

Magellan of Wyoming provider announcements

Visit the Magellan of Wyoming website for recent communications.

Magellan of Wyoming provider announcements

Region/plan-specific information

For the latest region/plan-specific information, visit MagellanProvider.com.

Region/plan-specific information

Magellan appoints Caroline Carney, MD, as CEO

"I am honored to have been chosen for this role leading a mission-driven organization that delivers innovative and integrated behavioral health solutions," said Dr. Carney. Meet Magellan's...

Featured: Featured Issue: Summer 2025
Magellan appoints Caroline Carney, MD, as CEO

Magellan adopts new clinical practice guideline

Magellan’s clinical taskforce recently adopted an external clinical practice guideline (CPG) for substance use disorders. Guidelines serve as the evidence-based framework for practitioners’...

Featured: Featured Issue: Spring 2026
Magellan adopts new clinical practice guideline

Expand your reach with PSYPACT

With licensing through the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT®), you could provide virtual services to Magellan Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) members across 40+ participating states —...

Featured: Featured Issue: Spring 2026
Expand your reach with PSYPACT

When you bill for individual and/or family therapy

Learn about common billing errors to avoid and check out some tips to ensure your claims accurately reflect the services you deliver.

Featured: Featured Issue: Fall 2025
When you bill for individual and/or family therapy

EAP handbook supplement updated for 2026

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 2026 — on our provider...

Featured: Featured Issue: Fall 2025
EAP handbook supplement updated for 2026

Magellan provider handbooks revised for 2026

The Magellan Handbook for the National Provider Network, and the accompanying Handbook Supplement for Organizational and Facility Providers, have been revised to reflect several new policies and...

Featured: Featured Issue: Fall 2025
Magellan provider handbooks revised for 2026

'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

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

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...

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

Specialize in maternal mental health?

In support of increasing awareness of maternal mental health, Magellan gives you several options when sharing your specialties via the provider portal.

Featured: Featured Issue: Summer 2024
Specialize in maternal mental health?

Free CE: Treatment refractory depression, Sept. 16

Join Magellan as we welcome Dr. Martha Koo, chief medical officer of Your Behavioral Health, to present an in-depth exploration of treatment refractory depression for September's lunch-and-learn.

Featured: Featured Issue: Summer 2025
Free CE: Treatment refractory depression, Sept. 16

Provider experience improves

Magellan is committed to making it easier for providers to get what they need online. Results from Magellan’s latest Provider Experience Survey show meaningful progress over the past two years.

Featured: Featured Issue: Summer 2025
Provider experience improves

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

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

Learn about MAT for alcohol use disorder, Feb. 25

Learn about medication-assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder, Feb. 25 This event has passed. Attend a virtual lunch-and-learn Join Magellan for our first lunch-and-learn of 2025 as we...

Featured: Featured Issue: Winter 2025
Learn about MAT for alcohol use disorder, Feb. 25

What to know about your Form 1099s

We will mail your Form 1099 to the financial address on record. If you want your 1099s to go to a different address, you must update your financial address electronically via the Magellan provider...

Featured: Featured Issue: Fall 2024
What to know about your Form 1099s

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

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

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

Observing American Heart Month

February’s American Heart Month affords a timely reminder that physical and mental health are deeply connected. Even brief, supportive conversations about heart health can reinforce whole-person...

Observing American Heart Month

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

4 ways to support patients with substance use disorders

Effective follow-up care is critical for improving outcomes for patients diagnosed with substance use disorders (SUDs). Impact your patients' recovery journeys and long-term health with these best...

Featured: Featured Issue: Winter 2025
4 ways to support patients with substance use disorders

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

Magellan providers make a difference

Some of Magellan’s network providers in California have faced evacuation due to wildfires and have continued to support as many members as possible.

Featured: Featured Issue: Winter 2025
Magellan providers make a difference

May marks Mental Health Awareness Month

During May and throughout the year, Magellan is committed to increasing awareness about mental health. This year, we highlight the signficant role that feeling connected to others plays in mental...

Featured: Featured Issue: Spring 2026
May marks Mental Health Awareness Month

Magellan adopts new clinical practice guidelines

Magellan’s clinical taskforce recently adopted several external clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). These guidelines serve as the evidence-based framework for practitioners’ clinical...

Featured: Featured Issue: Spring 2025
Magellan adopts new clinical practice guidelines

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

EAP registration features coming May 20

Magellan is enhancing provider website experiences to make it easier for you to complete essential tasks securely. On May 20, 2025, you’ll be able to register EAP cases and access case details and...

Featured: Featured Issue: Spring 2025
EAP registration features coming May 20

Review these guidelines for interns/associates

Thank you for participating in the Magellan Healthcare* network. We recognize members’ increased need to access behavioral health services and appreciate your support by utilizing your...

Review these guidelines for interns/associates

Keep referrals coming your way

Keep referrals coming your way Atlas Systems, via PRIME-Hub, will again support Magellan’s* network providers (you!) in completing the required annual review and update of your provider directory...

Keep referrals coming your way

Anonymous EAP registration allowed for State of CA

Due to confidentiality concerns driven by state job classification (e.g., California Highway Patrol officers), the State of California asks Magellan* to allow its employees to register for EAP...

Anonymous EAP registration allowed for State of CA

Why work-life harmony matters for providers

  Magellan Federal's Trina Hammonds, PhD, LPC, CEAP, discusses practical strategies to prevent burnout, sustain resilience, and enhance wellbeing in today's workplace.

Featured: Featured Issue: Fall 2025
Why work-life harmony matters for providers

Maintaining EAP records

Picture a vintage vinyl record collection—The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, maybe some Fleetwood Mac or Led Zeppelin. The owner would likely safeguard those records as treasured keepsakes. Your EAP...

Maintaining EAP records

Podcast: Preventing suicide in schools

Episode 11 of the Behavioral Health Matters podcast is live! Host Jim Lees, Magellan’s member and family advocate for Lehigh and Northampton counties, sat down with Jim Presto, co-chair of the...

Podcast: Preventing suicide in schools

Building stronger systems together

Highlights from Magellan’s third Collaborative Connections Conference In June, Magellan of Wyoming’s High Fidelity Wraparound providers came together for the third annual Collaborative Connections...

Building stronger systems together
MARCOM Awards

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