Magellan, Others Approve Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy For Patients With Depression

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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation treatment pushes powerful magnetic currents into the front of the brain, the part that controls emotions. Once considered an experimental treatment for depression, it is gaining acceptance since it came on the market four years ago. Beginning today, Medicare will cover the treatments when other therapies have failed. This week, specialty insurance administrator Magellan Behavioral Health Inc. issued medical necessity guidelines for TMS treatment and will provide coverage effective January 1, 2013. This was reported in The Tennessean on December 1, 2012.

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