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Policymakers are pressing health care providers to track—and therefore get paid according to—patient outcomes. At the same time, patients are savvier and demanding more accountability from providers. This session explores how audiologists can incorporate patient function and outcomes data in clinical decision-making and patient counseling in order to stay relevant as the primary provider of hearing health care services.

This course is a recorded session from the online conference “Audiology 2017: Cutting-Edge Perspectives in Service Delivery for Older Adults.”

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Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:

• Explain the relationship between data and health care payment
• Utilize standardized functional assessment tools in clinical practice
• Apply data from patient-reported tools and a patient-centered care approach to develop treatment goals

Presenter Information

Lisa Satterfield, MS, CCC-A, is ASHA’s director of health care regulatory advocacy. She is the liaison to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and she advocates on behalf of audiologists and speech-language pathologists with CMS staff regarding policy and payment. Her primary topic areas of expertise include the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), functional outcome reporting requirements for therapy services, manual medical review, and Medicare audits. Prior to joining ASHA staff, Satterfield was employed by the state of California Department of Health Care Services as an internal audiology consultant and worked on policy analysis, case management, and contract implementation for hearing aids, telehealth, cochlear implants, and California Children’s Services. She received her degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1994 and worked clinically in hospital, private practice, and university clinic settings until 2006.

Financial Disclosures:

• Associate director of the National Center for Evidence-Based Practice (NCEP) at ASHA

Nonfinancial Disclosures:

• No nonfinancial relationships to the content of this presentation

Assessment Type

Self-assessment—Think about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your new knowledge.

To earn continuing education credit, you must complete the learning assessment by the end date below.

Program History and CE Information

Online conference dates: October 11–23, 2017
End date: November 29, 2026

This course is offered for 0.1 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).