Bipolar and Panic Disorder Guidelines Adopted
Magellan recently adopted or updated two clinical practice guidelines to serve as the evidence-based framework for practitioners’ clinical decision-making for the treatment of patients with bipolar disorder and panic disorder.
Bipolar Disorder
Magellan re-adopted the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Bipolar Disorder, Second Edition1, and the Guideline Watch: Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Bipolar Disorder, Second Edition.
Magellan’s Introduction to the adopted guideline was revised extensively and includes several new sections with additional information from current studies and/or summarizes key points found in the APA guidelines.
Panic Disorder
Magellan also adopted the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Panic Disorder, Second Edition2 and updated the Magellan Introduction to the guideline. The APA incorporates developments in pharmacotherapy and other areas of psychiatric management of individuals with panic disorder. The APA guideline is a research-based document covering all areas of psychiatric management of patients with this disorder, from clinical features and epidemiology to treatment approach and planning.
Use of Guidelines
We encourage you to be familiar with the information in the Magellan Introductions, as well as the information in all guidelines.
All Magellan-adopted clinical practice guidelines are intended to augment, not replace, your sound clinical judgment. However, when you decide to provide care that does not adhere to a Magellan-adopted guideline, please be sure that the clinical record reflects that you weighed the recommendations in the guideline against the member’s clinical status and needs, and planned a clinically appropriate course of action.
Obtaining Copies of the APA Guideline
Visit the Clinical Practice Guideline page of this provider website for information on how to obtain copies of APA guidelines.
Provider Feedback
We welcome your input on our adopted clinical practice guidelines. We will take all suggestions and recommendations into consideration in our next review. Submit comments to your local Magellan provider advisory group or local Magellan medical director, or e-mail comments to Kathleen Frampton at KKFrampton@MagellanHealth.com.