ASHA Learning Pass

These Perspectives (SIG 8) articles cover a wide range of audiology and public health topics. Konrad-Martin and colleagues promote effective and standardized coding and third payer billing practices for the audiological management of symptomatic ototoxicity. The article includes relevant ICD-10-CM codes and CPT codes. Myers and Dundas provide a review of the effects of noise on the vestibular system. They note that temporary and permanent effects of noise on the vestibular system have been reported and advocate for further investigations to unpack the complex relationship between the auditory and vestibular systems. Finally, Pletnikova and colleagues conducted a quality initiative project to determine the feasibility and reliability of a tablet-based portable audiometer to identify hearing loss in a cognitively impaired population.

Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:

• list the appropriate ICD-10-CM diagnostic codes relevant to medication-induced hearing threshold shifts
• describe the potential consequences of noise exposure to the vestibular portion of the inner ear
• identify the factors affecting reliability of self-administered tablet-based audiometry in a patient population with cognitive impairment