Audiology Today
September / October 2023
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE | The Importance of Care
What follows is a message delivered during the opening general session of the AAA 2023+HearTECH Expo. I would like to reiterate some of what I said then for anyone who was unable to attend and to emphasize how much I believe in the importance and value of the care that we provide.
Mental Health First Aid Across the Life Span
Hearing and balance conditions are known to coincide with a host of health-related issues, including mental health. Audiologists need to be able to identify when emotional and psychological well-being is at risk in patients we serve.
Implementing a Protocol for Patients with Acquired Brain Injury in an Audiology Practice
Patients with acquired brain injury are not routinely referred to audiologists, and audiologists are rarely a part of the interprofessional practice team. Working with this population provides an opportunity for our profession to demonstrate our significance in the medical arena and to facilitate the opportunity to enhance communication for those who have had strokes and other types of acquired brain injuries.
Digital Dawn: Audiology’s New Era
Tele-audiology is growing at a rapid pace, providing new ways for audiologists to practice and offering convenient care to nontraditional patients. From researching new patient populations and new technologies, to creating new platform capabilities and ways to educate audiologists, tele-audiology companies continue to fill an important role in the future of audiology.
Navigating Practice Valuation: A Conversation with Amit Gosalia
What is practice valuation and why is it important? In the following interview, Amit Gosalia, AuD, ABA Certified, shares his personal experiences with buying, building, relocating, and selling private practices. With over 20 years of experience, Dr. Gosalia has built more than one successful practice and serves as a consultant for others going through the valuation process.
CODING AND REIMBURSEMENT | CMS by the Letters and Numbers: Know Your MAC
The objective of this article is to review the role of Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) and resources available through MACs to support Medicare providers in successful program participation, provider education, claims filing, reimbursement, and payer advocacy.
AUDIOLOGY ADVOCATE | Academy Redoubles Efforts to Modernize Medicare Audiology
As we go to press, the Academy, along with the Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA) and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), is celebrating the recent reintroduction of legislation by Senators Warren (D), Grassley (R), and Paul (R) that would modernize how Medicare recognizes and reimburses audiology services.
ON TREND | Tele-Audiology: Enhancing Accessibility to Audiology Services for Both Patients and Hearing-Care Providers
There are not enough audiologists or hearing instrument specialists to address the ever-increasing demand for hearing-health care. Nearly 80 percent of individuals with hearing loss do not have access to hearing care, as they live in regions with a shortage of working audiologists and hearing- care professionals (D’Onofrio and Zeng, 2022).