Optimize Your Practice:
Essential Tools for Audiologists
We understand the complexities of running a successful audiology practice. That's why we've developed and curated a suite of practice management tools designed to streamline your operations, ensure transparent patient communication, and maximize your revenue. These resources allow you to amplify your value and empower you to focus on what matters most: delivering exceptional patient care.
Disclaimer: The resources provided by the American Academy of Audiology offer general guidance to audiologists and do not supersede federal and state laws and regulations. We encourage audiologists to be familiar with their state requirements, as well as any institutional and payer restrictions, since there can be broad variability by state. Action taken with respect to the information provided in the resources is an individual choice and not the responsibility of the American Academy of Audiology.
Communications Toolkit
Explore these resources designed to empower audiology practices and departments with essential communication techniques and financial management tools. You’ll see how to effectively present the value of professional services to patients, the process for analyzing revenue and write-offs, and strategies for communicating the department's financial and strategic impact to healthcare administrators.
- Patient Communication: Scripts and strategies for audiologists to confidently explain the value of their expertise and services, with an emphasis on transparent, unbundled pricing models.
- Hospital Value Proposition: Use this documentation to position audiology as a financially and strategically valuable department to administrators, highlighting cash-based hearing aid sales and diagnostic testing that drives downstream surgical referrals.
Billing Toolkit
The Billing Toolkit provides a professional, compliant, and streamlined foundation to standardize, simplify, and secure your practice’s revenue cycle. It includes a full spectrum of billing resources, such as the A Guide to Itemizing Professional Services, Billing and Coding Myths and a Third Party Payer for Providers resource. Explore these resources to boost efficiency, improve patient clarity, and standardize your entire billing process.
- A Guide to Itemizing Professional Services helps you unbundle charges for hearing instruments and services. Learn to develop a fee schedule, including identifying services, determining your break-even hourly rate, and assigning procedure codes.
- Billing and Coding Myths makes sure that you aren’t limiting your revenue with outdated billing and coding practices. Find out how to embrace patient-centric, diversified business models to reclaim financial control and build a sustainable, future-proof practice.
- The Third-Party Payer for Providers resource gives you guidance about costs, tracking services, and educating patients to effectively navigate TPA contracts and ensure appropriate payment for care. There is also a TPA resource for patients.