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Billing Manual for Community Care Network Providers

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III.E. Clinical Practice Guidelines<strong>Community</strong> <strong>Care</strong> utilizes clinical practice guidelines to help practitioners and membersmake decisions about appropriate health care <strong>for</strong> specific clinical circumstances. Theseevidence-based guidelines are reviewed annually, updated as appropriate, andapproved by <strong>Community</strong> <strong>Care</strong>’s Quality and <strong>Care</strong> Management Committee (QCMC) andBoard Quality Improvement Committee (BQIC). Annually, <strong>Community</strong> <strong>Care</strong> measuresper<strong>for</strong>mance against each of the clinical practice guidelines via claims data or recordreviews. <strong>Providers</strong> are notified of the results of these measurements via providernewsletters or web-based communications. Currently, the following guidelines are beingutilized:American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline <strong>for</strong> the Treatment of Patientswith Major Depressive Disorder (Third Edition), October 2010.National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment: AResearch-Based Guide (Second Edition), April 2009.In addition to these to Clinical Practice Guidelines, <strong>Community</strong> <strong>Care</strong> adopted the APAPractice Guideline <strong>for</strong> the Treatment of Patients with Schizophrenia (Second Edition –April 2004) as well as the APA’s Treating Schizophrenia – A Quick Reference Guide.To obtain a copy of the APA guidelines, contact the American Psychiatric Association,1400 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20005 or visit the website:http://psychiatryonline.org/guidelines.aspxTo obtain a copy of the NIDA guideline, contact the National Institute of Drug Abuse,National Institutes of Health, 6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 5213, Bethesda, MD20892. The guideline may also be obtained via the NIDA website at:http://www.nida.nih.gov/PODAT/PODATIndex.html.For in<strong>for</strong>mation about our practice guideline measurements, contact <strong>Community</strong> <strong>Care</strong> at1-888-251-2224.III.F. New Technologies<strong>Community</strong> <strong>Care</strong> provides <strong>for</strong> a systematic assessment of new technologies and newapplications of existing technologies <strong>for</strong> behavioral health care, including clinicalinterventions, procedures, devices, and certain types of pharmacological treatments.<strong>Community</strong> <strong>Care</strong>’s New Technology Subcommittee, chaired by the Chief MedicalOfficer, meets on a routine basis to consider new technologies proposed <strong>for</strong> inclusion in<strong>Community</strong> <strong>Care</strong> Provider <strong>Manual</strong> | 1-888-251-CCBH | © 2012 All Rights Reserved | Page 80

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