Additionally, Magellan will work with Epotec to connect its provider network with consumers, payor organizations, and vendors. If all goes according to plan, Magellan's 50,000 providers could receive authorizations and eligibility information, submit claims, and form a number of other functions via the Internet. Many organizations offer Epotec to their clients, either as a value-added benefit or additional cost. The more than 50 programs range from mental health to parenting, rely on cognitive behavioral therapy. Users learn to recognize and interpret the thoughts connected to moods and experiences, Flanagan says.
Programs then prods users to break negative though patterns and create more constructive beliefs.
Coached programs, meanwhile, prompt users to submit assignments to anonymous licensed mental health providers, who offer feedback. And it empowers people, instead of going to someone to fix you and make you better. Epotec is not e-therapy, in which therapists conduct sessions online, Oss says. But it can compliment therapy, Flanagan says. Users can discuss program results with providers.