Course # 18818
The Potential Risks Versus the Need for a Comprehensive Medicare Benefit

Kim Cavitt, AuD

Kim Cavitt, AuD was a clinical audiologist and preceptor at The Ohio State University and Northwestern University for the first ten years of her career.  Since 2001, Dr. Cavitt has operated her own Audiology consulting firm, Audiology Resources, Inc.  Audiology Resources, Inc. provides comprehensive operational and reimbursement consulting services to hearing healthcare clinics, providers, organizations, buying groups, and manufacturers who want to be better equipped to compete in the managed care and healthcare arenas.  She currently serves on the Board of the Academy of Doctors of Audiology and the State of Illinois Speech Pathology and Audiology Licensure Board.  She also serves on committees through AAA and ASHA and is an Adjunct Lecturer at Northwestern University. 

Steven C. White, PhD, CCC-A

Director of the Health Care Economics and Advocacy at the ASHA National Office.

Steven C. White, PhD, CCC-A, is the Director of the Health Care Economics and Advocacy at the ASHA National Office. White, an ASHA Fellow, is ex officio to the Health Care Economics Committee.  His responsibilities include Medicare, private health insurance and Medicaid especially coding and outpatient reimbursement policies as they relate to these payers.  White is the staff liaison to the American Medical Association Current Procedural Terminology Editorial Panel and the AMA Relative Value Update Committee.  He has published and presented extensively on third party reimbursement.  White is co-author with Janet McCarty of Health Plan Coding and Claims Guide (2005), Negotiating Health Care Contracts and Calculating Fees (2004), Appealing Health Plan Denials, and Getting Your Services Covered.  White is also coauthor with Ingrida Lusis and Mark Kander of the Medicare Handbook for Audiologists (2005).  White holds a PhD in audiology from Wayne State University and an MS in speech-language pathology and audiology from Ithaca College.