ESCO Expands Insurance Solutions
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SelectQuote Partners with Hearing Benefits Provider
The SelectHearing program will be offered through Population Health, whose members will have access to hearing education, products, and dedicated hearing consultants, according to the announcement.
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Medicare Payments for Hearing Care Procedures: A 14-year Review
This 14-year review of Medicare reimbursement and demographic data by audiology leaders Ian Windmill, PhD, and Barry Freeman, PhD, is designed to help inform budgetary or productivity decisions within hearing care practices and support initiatives related to payments at the state or federal level.
Amplifon Hearing Health Care Earns NCQA Accreditation
In awarding its credentialing accreditation, NCQA conducted a review process of Amplifon that focused on several key areas, including internal quality improvement, appropriateness of agreements and collaboration with clients, peer review process, credential verification, and monitoring of sanctions and complaints.
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NationsBenefits Introduces Remote Telehealth Services
The company has developed digital technologies that allow access to hearing tests and related care from any location, including their homes, local community, and mobile devices when on the go.
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Warren and Rice Advocate to Attach Key Audiology Bill to COVID-19 Relief Packages
A bipartisan group is urging fellow Members of Congress to include provisions of the Medicare Audiologist Access and Services Act (H.R. 4056/S. 2446) in upcoming COVID-19 packages. The bill would include eliminating physician order requirements, updating the Medicare statute to classify audiologists as (LLP) practitioners, and authorizing Medicare to reimburse audiologists for the Medicare-covered medically necessary treatment services.
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NationsBenefits Partners with ADT on PERS for Medicare Advantage & Part D Plans
The company’s expansion is said to be largely tied to updated guidance and increased flexibility provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which results in MA plans offering more supplemental benefits for 2020 and beyond.
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CMS Issues Recommendations to Re-Open Health Care Systems in Areas with Low Incidence of COVID-19
The new recommendations are specifically targeted to communities that are in Phase 1 of the Guidelines for Opening Up America Again with low incidence or relatively low and stable incidence of COVID-19 cases.
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ASHA Announces Expanded Telepractice Coverage and Reimbursement for Three Health Plans
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) announced that as a “direct result of its...
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Medicare Telehealth Benefits Expanded During COVID-19 Crisis
As part of the expansion, Medicare will pay physicians, nurse practitioners, clinical psychologists, and licensed clinical social workers to offer telehealth services in any healthcare facility including doctor’s offices, nursing homes, hospitals, or their homes, according to the article.
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NationsBenefits Ranked #1 on Inc.5000 Series: Florida
Born of the annual “Inc. 5000” franchise, this regional list represents “a unique look at the most successful companies within the Florida economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses.”
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South Carolina Senator Sponsors Bill for Insurance Coverage for Hearing Aids
A bill sponsored by South Carolina Sen. Greg Hembree to provide coverage for hearing aids and repairs, up to $2,500 every two years, is currently in the Senate’s banking and insurance committee.
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AuDStandard Acquires Paradigm Growth 360, Forms HearWorks
This acquisition will reportedly allow AuDStandard “to provide the industry’s most innovative and effective marketing services to current and future clients,.”
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Report Shows Out-of-Pocket Costs for Medicare Advantage May Still be High
According to the study, which analyzed data from the 2016 Cost Supplement to the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, out-of-pocket expenses comprised 79% of spending for hearing care among Medicare beneficiaries with supplemental coverage.
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Hearing Aid Legislation: Evidence of a Burgeoning New Reality?
Are subtle but important distortions of audiological science being slipped into hearing-related legislation? H.R. 3’s current language promotes a bias—intended or not—that mild-to-moderate hearing loss and severe-to-profound hearing loss are two distinct categories, requiring two distinct legislative treatments. Says who?
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NationsHearing Rebrands to NationsBenefits; Launches New Website
NationsHearing, LLC, a hearing aid and services benefit, announced that the company has completed a redesign and rebrand to NationsBenefits.
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Healthfirst and NationsHearing Partner on Hearing Program for Medicare Advantage
Healthfirst announced that it is teaming with NationsHearing to provide an enhanced hearing health...
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Blueprint Solutions Partners with ESCO
Blueprint Solutions announced it has partnered with ESCO to provide practices a “unique, automated...
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