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Magellan Health launches new thought leadership website

Emerging Therapies for Parkinson’s Disease

Did you know that Parkinson’s disease psychosis (PDP) is diagnosed in about half of all Parkinson’s diseases patients and presents practitioners with significant disease management challenges? The Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy recently published a manuscript written by a panel of experts from neurology, psychiatry, geriatrics, and geropsychiatry as well as thought leaders…

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Cobalt, Magellan's CCBT program, puts Cognitive Behavioral Therapy into your hands wherever you are.

Building Apps to Promote Healthy, Vibrant Lives: Magellan’s Digital Innovations

There are many healthcare-oriented apps in the marketplace, but there are few out there that offer cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and that have also been built on a multi-decade foundation of program efficacy data. Magellan’s CBT apps engage participants in psychoeducational content and activities through interactive sessions designed to maximize self-management of behavioral health symptoms…

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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…

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Learn More About Stacy and Self-Directed Care

Stacy Ellingen is a woman from Wisconsin who’s never met an obstacle she couldn’t overcome. After graduating from high school, Stacy left home to attend the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. After graduating with a degree in journalism and advertising, she moved to Oshkosh. Now in her thirties, Stacy leads a busy professional life as a small…

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The Quest for the Hepatitis C Virus Holy Grail

Simply put, hepatitis means inflammation of the liver. Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV), a blood-borne disease of the liver, is a global health concern. In the United States (U.S.), it affects an estimated 3.9 million people, up to 30 percent of whom will develop cirrhosis and 1 percent to 3 percent of whom will develop…

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Do You Know the Truth about Trend?

Magellan understands that the market looks at pharmacy trends as a gauge to measure pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) success. However, you really can’t compare one trend number to another as every PBM uses different methodologies, different data sets and different calculations to arrive at their trend number, and often adjustments are made to these calculations year-over-year….

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