ASHA Audiology Resources

Take the guesswork out of coding and claims with these essential guides Getting Your Services Covered: A Guide for Working With Health Plans Health Plan Coding and Claims Guide Janet P. McCarty, MEd Steven C. White, PhD, CCC-A This guide assists you in obtaining payment for speech-language pathology and audiology services. The Health Plan Coding and Claims Guide is a valuable resource for billing codes, claims ﬁling, and health plan payments. It focuses on private health plans as opposed to public programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, but these latter programs are referenced throughout to facilitate a better understanding of private third-party payment. Topics include: ■ ICD-9-CM diagnostic codes ■ CPT procedural codes ■ payment system based on codes Code your services and ﬁle claims with conﬁdence! Item #0112486 $48 > > > ASHA member $65 > > > nonmember Purchase the updated pages only: Item #0112676 $24.00 > > > ASHA member $32.50 > > > nonmember Getting Your Services Covered: A Guide for Working With Health Plans Janet P. McCarty, MEd Steven C. White, PhD, CCC-A This guide helps practicing clinicians advocate for coverage of services. Develop a reimbursement advocacy plan that includes selecting a target audience, preparing a letter of introduction, and learning ways to make face-to-face contact with key decision makers. Develop information packets for distribution that provide treatment descriptions, practice patterns, costs of services, and efﬁcacy reports. A great resource for promoting your services to health plans. Item #0112292 $46 > > > ASHA member $62 > > > nonmember Appealing Health Plan Denials Janet P. McCarty, MEd Maureen E. Thompson Steven C. White, PhD, CCC-A Health plans deny speech-language pathology and audiology services for a variety of reasons, and often deny claims for services that appear to be reasonable and necessary. This practical guide helps clinicians respond to and appeal these claims. Treatment efﬁcacy statements are provided to support the medical necessity requirement of many health plans. Sample appeal letters for a variety of conditions are provided in hard copy format, as well as in Microsoft Word format on CD for easy customization. Item #0112475 $38 > > > ASHA member $50 > > > nonmember Click on Other Publishers’ Products at www.asha.org/shop to ﬁnd audiology products from AUDiTEC, Hear Again, Inc., Delmar Cengage Learning, and Plural Publishing, Inc. 8 1.888.498.6699 < < > > www.asha.org/shop http://www.asha.org/eweb/OLSDynamicPage.aspx?Webcode=olsdetails&title=Appealing+Health+Plan+Denials&utm_source=asha&utm_medium=catalog&utm_campaign=MSDigAud08 http://www.asha.org/eweb/OLSDynamicPage.aspx?Webcode=olsdetails&title=Health+Plan+Coding+and+Claims+Guide&utm_source=asha&utm_medium=catalog&utm_campaign=MSDigAud08 http://www.asha.org/eweb/OLSDynamicPage.aspx?Webcode=olsdetails&title=Getting+Your+Services+Covered%3a+A+Guide+for+Working+With+Health+Plans&utm_source=asha&utm_medium=catalog&utm_campaign=MSDigAud08 http://www.asha.org/eweb/OLSDynamicPage.aspx?Webcode=olsdetails&title=Getting+Your+Services+Covered%3a+A+Guide+for+Working+With+Health+Plans&utm_source=asha&utm_medium=catalog&utm_campaign=MSDigAud08 http://www.asha.org/eweb/OLSDynamicPage.aspx?Webcode=olsdetails&title=Appealing+Health+Plan+Denials&utm_source=asha&utm_medium=catalog&utm_campaign=MSDigAud08 http://www.asha.org/eweb/OLSDynamicPage.aspx?Webcode=olsdetails&title=Health+Plan+Coding+and+Claims+Guide&utm_source=asha&utm_medium=catalog&utm_campaign=MSDigAud08 http://www.asha.org/eweb/OLSDynamicPage.aspx?Webcode=olsdetails&title=Appealing+Health+Plan+Denials&utm_source=asha&utm_medium=catalog&utm_campaign=MSDigAud08 http://www.asha.org/eweb/OLSDynamicPage.aspx?Webcode=olsdetails&title=Getting+Your+Services+Covered%3a+A+Guide+for+Working+With+Health+Plans&utm_source=asha&utm_medium=catalog&utm_campaign=MSDigAud08 http://www.asha.org/eweb/OLSDynamicPage.aspx?Webcode=olsdetails&title=Health+Plan+Coding+and+Claims+Guide&utm_source=asha&utm_medium=catalog&utm_campaign=MSDigAud08 http://www.asha.org/eweb/OLSDynamicPage.aspx?Webcode=olsdetails&title=Health+Plan+Coding+and+Claims+Guide+Updates&utm_source=asha&utm_medium=catalog&utm_campaign=MSDigAud08 http://www.asha.org/eweb/OLSDynamicPage.aspx?Webcode=olsresults&cat=Other%20Publishers%20Products%20-%20Members%20Only&utm_source=asha&utm_medium=catalog&utm_campaign=MSDigAud08 http://www.asha.org/shop http://www.asha.org/shop

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