If you would like a printed copy of any Molina Healthcare of Texas' clinical practice guidelines, please call 210-366-6500 x203080 or 1-877-665-4622 x203080.

The Clinical Practice Guidelines are the basis for our Disease Management and Health Education Programs. Click on the appropriate links below to view the Clinical Practice Guidelines:

  Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Practice Guidelines

  Adults with Major Depression Guidelines

Asthma

Based on the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of National Institutes of Health Practical Guide for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma 2007.

Access the NHLBI Guideline via Internet at www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/asthma/index.htm

Diabetes

Based on the American Diabetic Association Standards of Medical Care for Patients with Diabetes Mellitus.

Diabetes Care, Volume 33, Supplement 1, Page S11-S61, January 2010.

Access the ADA Guideline via Internet at: www.diabetes.org

Go to: Clinical Practice Guidelines.

Access via Internet directly to Clinical Practice Recommendations at: http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/33/Supplement_1

Hyperlipidemia

Based on the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Third Report on the Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III).

Updated based on ATP III Update 2004: Implications of Recent Clinical Trials for the ATP III Guidelines

Modifications to cholesterol clinical practice guideline are available at National Heart and Lung and Blood Institute Website, "Implications of Recent Clinical Trials for the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III Guidelines" http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/cholesterol/atp3upd04.htm

Hypertension

Based on the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of National Institutes of Health. The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC-7).

Access the NHLBI Guideline via Internet at www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/hypertension/index.htm

Heart Failure

Based on the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association Guidelines for the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Heart Failure in the Adult.

Access the ACC/AHA Guideline via Internet at content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/reprint/46/6/e1

Depression

Based on the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement Guideline, Major Depression in Adults in Primary Care, May, 2009.

Access the ICSI Guideline via Internet at www.icsi.org . Select Health Care Guidelines By Title.

COPD

Based on the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) COPD Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention.

Access the GOLD Pocket Guide to COPD Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention 

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