Employer Insurance Packet

This section of the web site was designed to provide you–the consumer–with the tools to help you take the first step toward changing your health plan's coverage of speech, language, and hearing services. The following information will assist you in your discussion with your employer's benefits representative. 

• Communication Facts
• • Incidence and Prevalence of Hearing Loss and Hearing Aid Use in the United States (2006)
  • Incidence and Prevalence of Speech, Voice, and Language Disorders in Adults in the United States (2006) 
  • Incidence and Prevalence of Communication Disorders and Hearing Loss in Children (2007)
    
    
• Efficacy Summaries
  
  
• Costs to Add Benefits
  
  
• ASHA's Model Benefit Plans
  
  
• Scope of Practice in Audiology
  
  
• Scope of Practice in Speech-Language Pathology
  
  
• ASHA brochures (Previews only)
  • Checklist for Consumers: Getting Your Employer to Cover Speech-Language and Hearing Services [PDF] (Keep this for your own reference!)
  • Checklist for SLPs and Audiologists: Getting Your Employer to Cover Speech-Language and Hearing Services [PDF] (Keep this for your own reference!)
  • Checklist of Audiologic Rehabilitation: Ensuring Coverage of Audiologic Rehabilitation [PDF] (Keep this for your own reference!)
  • Making Sense of your Health Insurance Plan [PDF] (Keep this for your own reference!) 
  • What Can You Do For Less Than a Dollar? [PDF] 
  • Hearing Aids and Audiology Services
  • Speech-Language Pathologists: Helping People Communicate

Note: To obtain this packet of information in hard copy form - including the brochures - please contact the ASHA Action Center at 800-638-8255 and request your free copy of the Employer Insurance Packet (Item #0804301)

Additional information for your employer is available on Adding Speech, Language, and Hearing Benefits to Your Policy.

If you have any questions about the contents of this packet, contact the Health Care Economics and Advocacy Team at reimbursement@asha.org.