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On Jan. 31, President Bush outlined his proposal for "consumer-driven health care"--a new approach to providing health coverage to Americans--in his fifth State of the Union address to Congress. This [...]

Employees at George Washington's 500-acre Mount Vernon estate spruce up the historic site daily in preparation for the 3,000 visitors who will come and visit. A former security guard at Mount Vernon talks about some of his ridiculous experiences while working there.

Cochlear implants (CIs) are an ever-evolving issue for audiologists. Children are identified with hearing loss at younger ages and new approaches to treating hearing loss are emerging, giving rise to [...]

Reimbursement for treatment related to augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices, including speech-generating devices (SGDs) and non-SGDs, can be confusing. Many clinicians have questions about coverage, coding, non-dedicated devices, and [...]

Despite the availability of billing codes for evaluation of audiologic rehabilitation status and audiologic rehabilitation (AR), not all private health plans cover these services. The availability of audiologic rehabilitation billing [...]

ASHA is helping state associations respond to an erroneous characterization by Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. secretary of health and human services, who informed all 50 state governors that 'speech therapy' is [...]

A report by the Office of the Inspector General (GIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services indicates that New Jersey school officials continue to allow unqualified providers [...]

Recent audits by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services indicate that states continue to allow unqualifed providers to deliver school-based [...]

Health insurance coverage for hearing aids varies widely. Some states mandate coverage for certain populations. Health insurance for federal employees includes some coverage, and individual employers may offer the benefit [...]

The 2010 Current Procedural Terminology[C] (CPT), which became effective Jan. 1, includes a new vestibular testing code that combines four vestibular codes, but restrictions on the use of the constituent [...]

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation (H.R. 3961) in November that would avert a scheduled 21.2% fee cut in the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, but the Senate failed [...]

Audiologists have a new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)[c] code for canalith repositioning procedure (CRP) effective Jan. 1. Reimbursement for audiologists doing CRP remains inequitable, however, and ASHA is continuing to [...]

Treatments provided during the same session by more than one professional can be looked at in many ways. Determining payment for these services can be complicated by what some call [...]

Steep reductions in fees for some dysphagia assessment procedures are among the changes in the 2009 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for Part B services issued by the Centers for Medicare [...]

For many years audiologists and speech-language pathologists have billed for auditory rehabilitation services--services described as aural rehabilitation or audiologic rehabilitation. The Current Procedural Terminology[c] (CPT) code descriptor will serve as [...]

Recommended revisions and additions to diagnostic codes for stuttering and resonance would benefit clinicians by allowing them more precision in treating patients, say ASHA members Nan Bernstein Ratner and Dee [...]

The topic of cochlear implants, middle-ear implants, and brain-stem implants is an active one in the coding and reimbursement of audiology and speech-language pathology evaluation and treatment services. Specific Current [...]

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced an update to Medicare audiology coverage policies that provides significant clarifying language to the brief coverage description that has been [...]

Speech-language pathologists and audiologists have raised a number of questions with ASHA concerning the appropriate use of ICD-9-CM (International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification) codes when selecting a [...]

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a 2008 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) in July that categorizes audiology services as professional--rather than technical--for purposes of calculating reimbursement [...]

The proposed 2012 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) includes annual changes to valuations for audiology and speech-language pathology procedures, implements certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act and the Medicare [...]

A Medicare advisory committee has qualified a number of issues related to the effectiveness of cochlear implants for sensorineural hearing for further examination by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid [...]

Contracts presented to private-practice audiologists and audiology clinic directors are often confusing and difficult to understand. This article is designed to amplify information presented earlier ('Tips for Audiologists Contracting with [...]

A change in Medicare policy will allow audiologists and other health care professionals to bill two or three vestibular testing codes for the same patient on the same day, a [...]

ASHA is optimistic that restrictions on the reporting of individual vestibular testing codes in combination (The ASHA Leader, March 16) will be changed and that audiologists will be able to [...]

After two years of ASHA advocacy, speech-language pathologists can now bill Medicare directly for laryngeal function studies. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has added Current Procedural Terminology[c] [...]

Audiologists now have five new Current Procedural Terminology[C] (CPT) codes related to automated audiometry. Payment for these CPT Category III codes, which became effective on Jan. 1, is based on [...]

Speech-language pathologists in private practice who are eager to enroll in Medicare should not enroll before June 2. That's the advice of the director for provider and supplier enrollment at [...]

The State Advocates for Reimbursement (STAR) Network discussed local and national reimbursement and coverage issues at an April 4 meeting preceding the 2008 ASHA Health Care and Business Institute in [...]

The ASHA National Office has received a number of requests concerning what entities fall into the category of a "business associate" under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) [...]