SEATTLE, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ — The newest tool for managing the care of behavioral health patients is now available from Milliman Care Guidelines LLC, A Milliman Company.
The company’s Behavioral Health Guidelines product presents 15 groups of evidence-based clinical guidelines supporting care decisions for behavioral diagnoses from Anorexia Nervosa to Substance Abuse (for a complete list, visit http://www.careguidelines.com/products/bhg.shtml or see sidebar).
The Behavioral Health Guidelines provide healthcare teams a resource for more consistent, objective behavioral health decisions, and to better address the various levels of care. This latest release from Milliman Care Guidelines, the recognized leader in evidence-based clinical guidelines, enables medical staff to integrate behavioral health with other medical management disciplines in-house, to access relevant evidence integrated with users’ workflow, to optimize care by reducing inappropriate treatments and under-diagnosis, and to address chronic comorbidities when used in conjunction with Milliman’s Chronic Care Guidelines product.
Each diagnosis includes the industry-respected Milliman Care Guidelines annotated bibliography, integrating the graded evidence at the point of citation. Each also includes detailed clinical guidelines for five care levels — inpatient, residential care, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient program, and acute outpatient care — giving the care manager and clinician a roadmap for moving behavioral health patients through the continuum of care.
The inpatient guidelines format will be familiar to any user of Milliman’s widely accepted Inpatient and Surgical Care product. The other four levels of care incorporate features of Milliman’s General Recovery Guidelines, using stages in the Recovery Course to manage longer care episodes, and including detailed discharge criteria.
About Milliman Care Guidelines
Milliman Care Guidelines LLC, A Milliman Company, is located in Seattle, and independently develops and produces evidence-based clinical guidelines and a variety of software options that are used by more than 1,000 clients, including seven of the country’s ten largest managed care organizations and more than 600 individual hospitals, to support the care of one in three Americans. Covering the continuum of care, the seven-product Care Guidelines series is updated annually by an experienced team of clinicians, and includes Ambulatory Care, Inpatient and Surgical Care, General Recovery Guidelines, Recovery Facility Care, Home Care, Chronic Care Guidelines and Behavioral Health Guidelines. For more information, visit http://www.careguidelines.com/.
Milliman Care Guidelines is a wholly owned subsidiary of Milliman, which serves the full spectrum of business, financial, government, and union organizations. Founded in 1947 as Milliman & Robertson, the company has 47 offices in principal cities in the United States and worldwide. Milliman employs more than 2,000 people, including a professional staff of more than 900 qualified consultants and actuaries. The firm has consulting practices in employee benefits, healthcare, life insurance/financial services, and property & casualty insurance. For more information, visit http://www.milliman.com/.
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Diagnoses groups included in Milliman Care Guidelines’s new Behavioral Health Guidelines product:
The Behavioral Health Guidelines cover care for these 15 guideline groups: -- Anorexia Nervosa -- Anxiety Disorders (excluding Posttraumatic Stress Disorder) -- Attention-Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders -- Bipolar Disorders -- Bulimia Nervosa and Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified -- Delirium -- Dementia -- Dysthymia and Minor Depression -- Major Depressive Disorder -- Other Psychiatric Disorders -- Other Psychotic Disorders -- Pervasive Developmental Disorders -- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders -- Substance Abuse, Dependence, or Withdrawal
Milliman Care Guidelines
CONTACT: Scott Harris, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing,Milliman Care Guidelines, +1-206-381-8160, Cell +1-480-203-7268,[email protected]
Web site: http://www.careguidelines.com/http://www.careguidelines.com/products/bhg.shtmlhttp://www.milliman.com/
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