| Audiology in Brief |
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| Billing Policies: What’s Legal, What’s Not |
| Questions and Answers about common billing policies. |
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| Advocacy Pays Off, New Salary Bills Pass in Oklahoma and Rhode Island |
| Salary supplement successes in Oklahoma, Rhode Island, and West Virginia mean a $4.8 million annual increase for school clinicians with their CCCs. |
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| Crisis in Health Care Reimbursement |
| Rising costs, dwindling payments hurt patients and clinicians. |
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| Dysphagia Care is "Major Clinical Focus" at Veterans Health Administration |
| The Veterans Health Administration established a multi-disciplinary task force to develop comprehensive policies and guidelines addressing patients with dysphagia disorders. |
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| When Children Need Hearing Aids |
| Jakes mom took on an insurance company to get hearing aids for her son and won. *Audiology* |
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| The Power of Passionate Mentoring: Person-to-Person Professional Development |
| A mentor takes on six roles—-advisor, tutor, master, model, coach—-in a relationship that is mutually beneficial. |
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| Documentation Requirements Related to Reimbursement for Audiology Services |
| Documentation of a patient encounter is just as important to the entire process of patient care as face-to-face interaction with the patient. |
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| Clinical Documentation in Speech-Language Pathology |
| An overview of the rationale for documentation, documentation requirements and formats, treatment encounter notes, and electronic health records, and coding basics. |
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| Using Cadavers for Teaching Anatomy of the Speech and Hearing Mechanisms |
| A thorough understanding of the human anatomy through the accurate portrayal of speech and hearing structures should be enhanced by continuing or initiating the use of cadaver dissection. |
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