MMC Benefits Handbook
Mental Health/Substance Use
  • School-based Intensive Behavioral Therapies (IBT) service or services that are otherwise covered under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
  • Intense Early Intervention Using Behavioral Therapy (IEIBT) and Lovaas. This exclusion does not apply when required for the treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders.
  • Vagus nerve stimulator treatment for the treatment of depression and quantitative electroencephalogram treatment of behavioral health conditions.
  • Services performed in connection with conditions not classified in the current edition of the International Classification of Diseases section on Mental and Behavioral Disorders or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association.
  • Outside of an assessment, services as treatments for a primary diagnosis of conditions and problems that may be a focus of clinical attention, but are specifically noted not to be mental disorders within the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association
  • Outside of an assessment, services as treatments for the primary diagnoses of learning disabilities, conduct and disruptive impulse control and conduct disorders, gambling disorder and paraphilic disorders.
  • Services that are solely educational in nature or otherwise paid under state or federal law for purely educational purposes.
  • Outside of an assessment, unspecified disorders for which the provider is not obligated to provide clinical rationale as defined in the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association.