Magellan Collaborates with Cambria County
Magellan Behavioral Health of Pennsylvania, Inc., a Medicaid managed care organization (MCO), started as the new HealthChoices behavioral health exclusive contractor for the Cambria County Behavioral Health Services Program on July 1, 2017. Magellan currently administers behavioral health benefits for Medicaid members through HealthChoices contracts with Bucks, Delaware, Lehigh, Montgomery and Northampton counties.
Magellan has over two decades of experience managing behavioral health benefits for HealthChoices members through close collaboration with members, providers and community organizations. Through this collaborative mindset, Magellan has succeeded in producing innovative efforts in the following areas:
- increases in access to care
- improved service use rates
- expansion of the continuum of services in alignment with evidence-based models
- maximization of clinical appropriateness
- nationally recognized level of quality services
Read more about Magellan’s collaboration with Cambria County, local providers, community organizations and members in the Tribune Democrat: New Behavioral Health Provider Brings Options, Jobs to Cambria County.
Colleen Flanagan Johnson serves as Magellan Health’s vice president of external communications. In this role, Flanagan Johnson leads the company’s media relations, crisis communications and thought leadership programs, while supporting both businesses and corporate enterprise functions in communications messaging and strategy. In addition, Flanagan Johnson helps lead Magellan’s community response efforts in the event of a natural or man-made disaster, which provide counseling services to individuals in needs, regardless of whether or not they are Magellan members.
Prior to joining Magellan in 2013, Flanagan Johnson led the communications and strategy functions for several elected officials, including U.S. Senator Kay Hagan, U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd and Governor Dannel Malloy. In addition, Flanagan Johnson served as the communications director and chief of staff for one of Connecticut’s two public university systems.
Flanagan Johnson is a member of the Connecticut Women’s Council, and has volunteered for the Board of Education Services for the Blind, the Connecticut Science Center and is currently a member of the board of directors at the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and public relations from the University of Connecticut.
