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What is the Difference Between CPT and ICD-9 Codes?

Robert C. Fifer, PhD

January 16, 2006

What is the difference between CPT and ICD-9 codes?   Read More


What is the Optimum Number of Hearing Aid Channels?

Lynda Clark, MS, CCC-A

January 9, 2006

Are there any studies/research done regarding the effect of multiple bands and/or channels to increase the benefits received through amplification? If so, what is optimal? Also is there any research d...   Read More


Billing for Video-Assisted Dix-Hallpike

Robert C. Fifer, PhD

January 9, 2006

In patients suspect for BPPV I do a video assisted Dix-Hallpike to confirm BPPV and to document the findings. The patient is scheduled to return for repositioning on another day. Can I charge for the...   Read More

 


Batteries Packaged in the UK

Tom Begley

January 9, 2006

On the backs of many battery packs we get, it is marked "Made in the UK." Are all of Rayovac batteries made in the United Kingdom?   Read More


Candidacy Criteria for the Baha System

Teri Sinopoli, MA, CCC-A, FAAA

January 2, 2006

I am a Doctor interested in referring patients for BAHAs. My question is concerns criteria on pure tone average for BAHAs. What hearing threshold level in dB for a conductive hearing loss or mixed hea...   Read More

     


CPT Code for Canalith Repositioning

Robert C. Fifer, PhD

January 2, 2006

I was wondering what the CPT code is for canalith repositioning maneuver?   Read More


Speech Perception for Unilateral v. Bilateral Hearing Loss in Children

Anne Marie Tharpe, PhD

December 26, 2005

I was reading an article regarding Unilateral Hearing Loss and came upon a study conducted by (Bess, Tharpe, & Gibler, 1986). This study went on to describe effects of unilateral hearing loss on speec...   Read More

  


Hearing Care Practice Management Systems

Kevin Lindeman

December 19, 2005

I'm an audiologist with a growing dispensing practice. Is there software that will assist in filing the medicare (and other insurance) forms?   Read More


My Child Has a Unilateral Hearing Loss

Carol Flexer, PhD, CCC-A, LSLS Cert. AVT

December 12, 2005

My son is now one year old and was diagnosed with unilateral hearing loss when he was born. Now that he is starting to talk, I wonder is there anything I can do to help him with his speech. He does no...   Read More

    


Electrical Auditory Brainstem Response (EABR)

Laura Voll, MA

December 5, 2005

How to I setup for an Electrical Auditory Brainstem Response (EABR)?   Read More

 


What Is That Foul Odor On My Hearing Aid?

Brad Ingrao, AuD, MS, CCC-A, FAAA

November 28, 2005

How can you prevent or keep the hearing aids and ears from having a very awful smell?   Read More

     


Why Order an ABR, Too?

John A. Ferraro, PhD, MS, ASHA Fellow, FAAA

November 21, 2005

I tested a five year old boy this week and was extremely confident in his responses. He has a moderate rising to slight SNHI in the right ear and a mild SNHI rising to normal in the left ear. He passe...   Read More

  


When the Audiologist Has Hearing Loss

Robert M. Traynor, EdD, MBA

November 14, 2005

I work with an audiologist who is 76 years old and has a severe high frequency loss bilaterally. Every time we run a speech discrimination test on a patient for hearing aid evaluation, he miscalculate...   Read More


Contracting Audiology Services to Physicians

Bryan Liang, MD, JD, PhD

November 7, 2005

I am an audiologist working for a private audiology clinic and hearing aid dispensing center. Our facility wants to contract our audiology services to physicians. If we draw up a contract for an hourl...   Read More


Ambient Conditions and Battery Performance

Denis Carpenter

November 7, 2005

I would like to find out the effects of the following on the performance or operation of zinc air cells: the effect of ambient conditions as the result of air pollution, and the effect of temperature...   Read More


T-Coil Based Loop Systems

William Diles, MA, Christine Diles, AuD

October 31, 2005

I am very impressed with LOOP SYSTEMS, but marketing and selling them has been a real challenge for me and my practice associates. How do I get patients to try T-coil based Loop systems, and how can I...   Read More

 


Lyme Disease and Hearing Loss

Lance E. Jackson, MD

October 24, 2005

Do you know of any relationship with Lyme Disease and Tinnitus? Or Lyme Disease and hearing loss?   Read More

  


Articulation Index and Patient Expectations

Gus Hernandez, MA, FAAA

October 17, 2005

I have some patients with low hearing instrument satisfaction after 1 year of use. When I looked at their audiometry I found that they have a very low Articulation Index and their Word recognition was...   Read More


Active-Noise Reduction Headsets

Elliott H. Berger, MS, INCE Bd. Cert.

October 17, 2005

If noise reduction reduces "good" sounds, too, then how do noise-reducing stereo headsets deliver such good sound? Could their design be used for hearing aids?   Read More

 


Bi-Lingual Cochlear Implant Users

Amy McConkey Robbins, MS, CCC-SLP

October 10, 2005

My daughter Danielle was diagnosed with profound bilateral hearing loss at one month of age. She was implanted at 10 months. She hears the grass grow. Her receptive speech is about age appropriate, ex...   Read More

  


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