Know the Facts: Charging Medicaid Patients
It is critical that audiologists and hearing instrument specialists understand regulations for charging for and delivering services or items to patients with Medicaid coverage.
It is critical that audiologists and hearing instrument specialists understand regulations for charging for and delivering services or items to patients with Medicaid coverage.
Managed care is substantially growing in depth and breadth every year. Telehealth, OTC, the current pandemic, and other factors significantly impact the modern hearing care office in tandem with managed care. Therefore, as we evaluate, select and participate in managed care, we must seek and select the opportunities which best meet the goals and needs of the modern hearing care office.
Prior to the Oregon Health Authority's policy change, patients were only allowed one hearing aid every five years, OPB reports.
Rep David B. McKinley, P.E. (R-WVa) applauded a decision made by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to drop a proposed rule that would have eliminated Medicare coverage for several types of hearing devices.
Read MoreThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed a new rule that would effectively end coverage for people who need bone-anchored hearing solutions—systems that have traditionally been covered by Medicare.
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