Search ASHA Publications About Professional Issues and Audiology Practice Management
The ASHA online journals, Access Audiology, and The ASHA Leader are excellent sources of materials to supplement your curriculum.
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The ASHA Leader
Selected Online Leader articles about Professional Issues and Audiology Practice Management:
Group Audiologic Rehabilitation for Adults: Ten Reasons to Add This Service to Private Practice
Audiologic rehabilitation can be offered in individual or group sessions and may be personalized for each patient to include technology, communication strategies, coping skills, speech-reading, auditory training, and knowledge of public laws requiring access to auditory information.
Audiology Assistant Welcomes Program
This audiology assistant enjoys caring for his veteran patients.
Preparing for Health Insurance Exchanges
Development of state-level health care exchanges, as required by federal health care legislation, will include issues and considerations important to audiologists and speech-language pathologists.
State Budget Cuts Will Affect Members, Services
Speech-language pathologists and audiologists who work in public schools, deliver health care services under Medicaid, or teach in public universities—and the individuals they serve—will feel the impact of proposed state budget cuts, if current proposals pass state legislatures in the next few months.
The Social Media Mix: How SLPs and Audiologists Are Using Social Media in Their Professional Lives
There are many social networking sites devoted specifically to SLPs and audiologists. CSD professionals should be aware of the more popular sites and trends and how they can help—or hurt—their professional lives.
Clarifying Our Terminology
Moving the discipline forward by defining terms and sharing data.
Social Security Updates Criteria for Hearing Disability
The Social Security Administration has revised and updated the disability criteria for evaluating hearing loss and now stipulates who may perform audiometric testing.
Emergency Planning for Your Clinic
Natural disasters or acts of violence have sudden and often unanticipated consequences on business operations. When catastrophic events interrupt business operations, an established and well-executed emergency plan is essential.
Medicare Revises, Clarifies Audiology Rules
Find out how recent changes in Medicare policies affect the use of audiometric technicians, computer-administered audiometric devices, re-evaluations, hospital outpatient services, and services rendered as an employee or contractor of a physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner.
Navigating the Coding and Reimbursement Maze
In February ASHA hosted a webinar, "2010 Audiology Coding and Reimbursement Update." Audiologists had many questions that were answered during the event; answers to additional questions are presented here.
Coverage for Pediatric Services
Plans often deny treatment for several reasons; clinicians can help their clients by understanding the possible reasons for denial and strategies to avoid them.
Effective Patient Communication
Quality clinical audiologic care begins with effective communication with patients. Effective communication includes accurate understanding of the patient's questions, concerns, and needs as well as communicating in a way that enhances patient understanding, compliance, and satisfaction. These aspects of communication are essential to obtaining appropriate clinical outcomes.
Audiology PQRI Resources Available
Audiologists have the opportunity to improve the profession of audiology and the quality of patient care by participating in the Medicare Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) program.
Medicare Begins Audits of Claims
Audiologists and speech-language pathologists in southern and western states may face audits for improper payments on Medicare claims.
Bottom Line: Improving Health Plan Payment Rates
Clinicians can employ specific strategies to negotiate the best possible rates when contracting with health care plans.
Medicare Quality Reporting Available
In 2010, private-practice audiologists and speech-language pathologists will be able to participate in the Medicare Physician Quality Reporting Initiative program.
Wisconsin Passes Insurance Mandate: Audiologists Help Win Coverage for Children's Cochlear Implants, Hearing Aids
A new law mandates broad insurance coverage for auditory devices for children as well as the audiology and aural rehabilitation services needed by children with hearing loss.
Custom Fit Your Marketing
Strategies for health care organizations to market to potential referral sources and patients; Audiologist Gail Linn shares the marketing philosophy and strategies she used to build a successful practice; A successful statewide marketing effort helps recruit and retain school-based clinicians in South Carolina.
Safe-Listening Myths for Personal Music Players
While the media continue to spotlight the risk of noise-induced hearing loss from personal music players, a number of myths have surfaced in the public arena. It's important for professionals to stay informed.
Closing the Gap in EHDI Follow-Up
Children are still being lost to follow-up after newborn hearing screening. This article explores the gaps in the system.
Navigating the Early Intervention System: A Guide to Scope and Funding of Programs
Speech-language pathologists and audiologists can participate effectively in early intervention programs when they understand the scope of these programs and their funding mechanisms.
Health Literacy at the Intersection of Cultures
Cultural differences can affect our clinical encounters and influence decisions about treatment.
Beyond BTEs: Earmold Opportunities in Clinical Practice
Audiologists can diversity their income streams and rely less on low-volume, high-priced hearing aids and shift the focus to higher-volume, lower-priced alternatives for audiophiles and people with hearing loss.
New Code for Canalith Repositioning
Audiologists have a new Current Procedural Terminology code for carnality repositioning procedure effective January 1, but reimbursement for audiologists for the procedure remains inequitable.
Universal Hearing Health Care: Where Do Audiology and Hearing Aids Fit?
Health care was a topic of debate during the recently concluded presidential election. Five countries profile models for the provision of audiology services within a universal health care system.
A Legal Primer on Business Entities
Choosing a business structure is the key decision in starting a private practice.
Paper, Paper Everywhere? How to Go Paperless in Your Private Practice
There is a movement toward paperless practice with the advent of commercial management software systems designed for SLPs as well as multidisciplinary practices.
Buying or Selling an Audiology Business
The purchase or sale of a business is quite complicated. Key steps to take when you buy or sell an audiology business.
Audiology Telepractice Overcomes Inaccessibility
Telepractice brings newborn hearing screening to hospitals in Canada, cochlear implant mapping to children in Florida, and helps diagnose medical conditions in Alaska.
Hearing Benefits Upgraded for Federal Employees
Approximately 9 million federal employees may enjoy major upgrades in their hearing health benefits, thanks for an ASHA-led advocacy campaign to improve coverage in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
Insurer to Reimburse Mismanaged Claims
Speech-language pathologists and audiologists are eligible for reimbursement for claims erroneously processed by UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company's state plans under a multimillion-dollar settlement agreement.
Codes and Contexts: Exploring Linguistic, Cultural, and Social Intelligence
Being able to read the context and decode the message is essential for successful cross-cultural communication.
Health Literacy: The Cornerstone of Patient Safety
All too often, citizens are at risk for unapproved and unsafe care because they have difficulty understanding and using health information. Learn about the risks of poor health literacy and steps you can take to address the problem.
The Audiologist as an Expert Witness
The author relates her experience in taking the witness stand in a felony murder trial and the lessons learned about what is required of a speech-language pathologist or audiologist in this capacity.
Something New for the Audiogram
The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Department of Audiology has developed an alternative symbol for response at limit.
Health Literacy: Research Directions for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Because health literacy poses challenges for people with communication disorders and differences, speech-language pathologists and audiologists have an integral role in health literacy research and intervention.
Audiologists with Hearing Loss
Profiles of audiologists who have blazed the trail for people with hearing loss to enter the profession as well as those who will be among the next generation of audiologists.
Empathy: A Clinician's Perspective
An exploration of empathy in the client-clinician relationship and its influence on satisfaction with treatment.
Ethical Issues in Genetics Related to Hearing Loss
New technologies in genetics may raise unique ethical challenges when working with people with hearing loss and their families.
The Counseling Relationship
Audiologists adopt a necessary but unconventional role by forming a counseling relationship with those they serve.
Audiology Telepractice Moves From Theory to Treatment
Telepractice holds promise as a means to deliver audiology services as challenges are addressed.
How an Audiologist Can Thrive in a Speech-Language Pathology World
Employment as an audiologist in a speech-language pathology-only graduate program has proven to be both interesting and challenging.
Cultural Competence in Audiology
Our success as clinicians depends on our ability to ensure that cultural differences do not bias our test results.