Magellan’s annual provider satisfaction survey is an important part of our measurement of successes and method of capturing information for improvement of service to our network providers. Our network providers’ collaboration in completing the surveys has assisted us with various efforts – from our operations and quality program, to meeting customer requests and requirements, to demonstrations of meeting accreditation standards. More...
Magellan recently reviewed and re-adopted the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Schizophrenia, Second Edition and also adopted the Texas Implementation of Medication Algorithms (TIMA) Physician’s Manual: Schizophrenia. More...
Magellan will require providers to submit their National Provider Identifier (NPI) on all HIPAA-standard electronic transactions beginning May 23, 2008. This is the date that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) one-year contingency period (or “grace” period) ends. All standard electronic transactions received without NPIs will be rejected. More...
