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20Q: Adding Vestibular-Balance Neurodiagnostics to Your Audiology Practice

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1.  The benefits of offering vestibular-balance neurodiagnostics to an audiology practice include which of the following? There is a huge underserved population who needs access to neurodiagnostics to manage dizziness, vertigo and elevated falls risk. Reimbursement is good and there are new CPT codes for VEMP. Offering these services differentiates providers from those whose primary business is hearing aid dispensing. All of the above

2.  Which of the following tests is NOT included in the recommended neurodiagnostic vestibular-balance battery? Tone decay Videonystagmography (VNG) with/without calorics Rotary Chair Video Head Impulse Test (vHIT)

3.  Which of the following is a common otologic condition that usually can be diagnosed and successfully treated by an audiologist? Vestibular Neuritis Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome (SCDS) Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) Vestibular Schwannoma

4.  Which of the following is an evidence-based, non-medical treatment that changes the brain's response to motion and the environment for patients with chronic and often debilitating symptoms including motion-provoked dizziness, a sense of after-motion, or reliance on the senses of vision or touch to keep balance? Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT) Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy (VRT) Epley Manuever Herdman Manuever

5.  Audiologists who offer vestibular-balance neurodiagnostics can play a role in helping with which important national health care issue? Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Opioid crisis Preventing acoustic neuromas Falls in the elderly