How to Implement Itemization in an Audiology Practice

Semin Hear 2016; 37: 137-147
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1579704

The hearing aid delivery landscape has dramatically changed over the past several years, with a commercial payer, the Internet, and big box stores dispensing hearing aids directly to patients. The audiology community needs to modify the bundled billing model. This session will describe how to optimize the services you provide to current and new patients and change the hearing aid delivery and hearing aid pricing model to remain competitive with these new market trends. This activity will educate participants on itemized billing, sometimes referred to as unbundling, its pros and cons, and how it could aid audiologists in differentiating themselves in the hearing aid delivery landscape.
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How to Implement Itemization in an Audiology Practice

Semin Hear 2016; 37: 137-147
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1579704

The hearing aid delivery landscape has dramatically changed over the past several years, with a commercial payer, the Internet, and big box stores dispensing hearing aids directly to patients. The audiology community needs to modify the bundled billing model. This session will describe how to optimize the services you provide to current and new patients and change the hearing aid delivery and hearing aid pricing model to remain competitive with these new market trends. This activity will educate participants on itemized billing, sometimes referred to as unbundling, its pros and cons, and how it could aid audiologists in differentiating themselves in the hearing aid delivery landscape.
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Application of the Consumer Decision-Making Model to Hearing Aid Adoption in First-Time Users

Semin Hear 2016; 37: 103-119
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1579706

Since 1980, hearing aid adoption rates have remained essentially the same, increasing at a rate equal to the organic growth of the population. Researchers have used theoretical models from psychology and sociology to determine those factors or constructs that lead to the adoption of hearing aids by first-time impaired listeners entering the market. In this article, a theoretical model, the Consumer Decision-Making Model (CDM), premised on the neobehavioral approach that considers an individual's psychological and cognitive emphasis toward a product or service, is described. Three theoretical models (i.e., transtheoretical, social model of disability, Health Belief Model), and their relevant findings to the hearing aid market, are initially described. The CDM is then presented, along with supporting evidence of the model's various factors from the hearing aid literature. Future applications of the CDM to hearing health care also are discussed.
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Self-Assessment Questions

Semin Hear 2016; 37: C1-C8
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1579708

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Interventional Audiology: Broadening the Scope of Practice to Meet the Changing Demands of the New Consumer

Semin Hear 2016; 37: 120-136
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1579705

Given the growth in the aging population, low hearing uptake rates and the emerging science indicating that age-related hearing loss has long term consequences to health and wellness, an interventional audiology strategy is needed. This paper will define interventional audiology and offer guidance on bringing an interventional audiology to life in clinical practice.
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Patient Complexity Charge Matrix for Audiology Services: A New Perspective on Unbundling

Semin Hear 2016; 37: 148-160
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1579703

Traditional approaches to unbundling hearing aid services often take existing bundled charges and then separate the charges across all potential services associated with dispensing the devices. However, this method results in every patient being charged the same amount even though the complexity of the service varies across patients. We describe a model of charging for hearing aid services that takes into account three elements associated with patient services (i.e., assessing hearing status, audiologic decision making and interpretation, and counseling and treatment options) and two levels of complexity (straightforward and complex). Using this approach, there is negligible long-term financial impact on a practice however patients will perceive a lower overall cost for amplification. Additionally, this approach provides a payment structure more representative of the professional value of each visit.
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Delivery of Audiology Services: Differentiation in an Evolving Health Care Marketplace

Semin Hear 2016; 37: 101-102
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1579707

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