Superior approves, adopts, and promotes clinical practice guidelines to practitioners in an effort to improve health care quality and reduce unnecessary variation in care for its enrolled Members. These evidence-based guidelines are known to be effective in improving health outcomes and are adopted from recognized sources. Superior’s clinical practice guidelines, Adult/Pediatric preventive health guidelines and guidelines for prenatal care are available on our website (www.superiorhealthplan.com). All guidelines are annually reviewed for updating and or when new scientific evidence or national standards are published, approved by Superior’s Quality Improvement Committee, and disseminated to providers via the Provider Newsletters, and targeted mailings. Paper copies are available upon request, by contacting Superior’s Quality Improvement Department at:

Superior HealthPlan Inc./Network
ATTN: Quality Improvement Director
2100 South IH-35, Suite 200 Austin, Texas 78704
1-800-218-7453

• ADHD – Treatment of the School-Aged Child with Attention- Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (PDF)
• Adult Preventive Health Guidelines
• Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma (PDF)
• Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes
• Immunizations – Child and Adolescent (PDF)
• Immunizations – Adult
• Pediatric Preventive Health Guidelines (CHCUP) (PDF)
  (hyperlink to http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/data/120/6/1376/DC1/1)
• Guidelines for Perinatal Care, Seventh Edition – full text may be purchased at the website of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Hard copy excerpts may be obtained from Superior HealthPlan.
• Management of Sickle Cell (PDF)