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Legal, Ethical, and Professional Issues (LEPI)

LM308 - 2024 Advocacy Update: Challenges and Opportunities for Audiology

Friday, April 19, 2024
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM EST
Location: A408
Earn 0.1 CEUs
Ethics
Instructional Level: Fundamental

    Lead Presenter(s)

  • SP

    Susan Pilch

    Disclosure(s): No financial or nonfinancial relationships to disclose.

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    • Presenter(s)

  • Lee Cottrell, AuD

    Director of Audiology
    Balance and Hearing Institute

    Disclosure(s): No financial or nonfinancial relationships to disclose.

Abstract:

This session will provide attendees with a comprehensive overview of the legislative and regulatory issues facing the profession of audiology at both the federal and state level. Some of the topics that will be covered include the Medicare Audiology Access Improvement Act (MAAIA), efforts to mitigate Medicare reimbursement cuts as well as the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Licensure Compact (ASLP-IC) and efforts to protect the audiology scope of practice at the state level.

Learning Objectives:

  • Summarize the status of MAAIA as well as the other ongoing efforts to include hearing aids and audiology services in Medicare
  • Describe some of the current threats to audiology scopes of practice at the state level
  • List the ways the ASLP-IC would facilitate practice across state lines