Aetna Depression Management offers your practice a variety of printable tools to assist you in the diagnosis and management of depression, improving office efficiency and saving you time. All of these tools have been adopted from recently published studies.
   
Aetna invites you to consider incorporating some or all of these resources into your own professional practice toolkit. As always, none of these materials or guidelines is meant to be a substitute for your own clinical knowledge, experience and judgment.

Key Components of the Three Component Model, 3CM™
Understand this effective approach to the treatment of depression in the primary care setting.

Recognition Tools
To aid with the identification of depression, use our screening tools to help recognize red flags and/or suicidal risk.

DiagnosticTools
Aetna Depression Management uses the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) as the primary diagnostic tool for depression.

Diagnosis and Initial Treatment
It is easy to determine the next step in depression treatment based on a patient’s Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) scores.

Care Management Referral
To initiate Aetna Depression Management for a patient in your practice, complete the form and fax it along with the patient-administered Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) to Aetna at 1-801-256-7699.

Treatment Tools
The goal of treatment is the remission of symptoms. Our tools will help you better understand the available treatment options for depression and discuss them with your patients, who should be active participants in their care.