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Attention SADA Members,

We have the following positions open on the SADA Board for the 2024 calendar year. If you will be a student during the spring semester of 2024, you are eligible to run for a position. If you are interested, please complete the online form by Friday, December 1^st.

AuDacity 2023 – Go Beyond will exceed every limit and all expectations with brand new, original, practical, peer-curated content, developed from scratch and delivered by practicing audiologists and practice owners. View the agenda – and see what all the fuss is about! It’s going to be a truly outstanding, one-of-a-kind program!

The Medicare Audiology Access Improvement Act will align Medicare policies with evidence-based practices in the delivery of hearing and balance care through the following provisions:

July 19, 2023

The American Academy of Audiology (AAA), Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA), and American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) have endorsed the Medicare Audiology Access Improvement Act of 2023, bipartisan legislation introduced today by U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Charles Grassley (R-IA) that will provide seniors with more timely and robust access to services provided by audiologists.

On July 13, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the CY 2024 Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. You can access it here: https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2023-14624/medicare-and-medicaid-programs-cy-2024-payment-policies-under-the-physician-fee-schedule-and-other

On July 13, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the CY 2024 Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. You can access it here: https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2023-14624/medicare-and-medicaid-programs-cy-2024-payment-policies-under-the-physician-fee-schedule-and-other

Attention ADA Member:

ADA has received several member queries regarding the potential for legal liability for audiologists who participate in promotional incentive programs whereby they purchase hearing aids from a hearing aid manufacturer or distributor in exchange for monetary compensation in the form of paid conference registration fees.

Given both the significance and time-sensitive nature of this issue for ADA members, ADA sought a legal review on this issue. ADA’s attorney has reviewed sales promotions offering audiologists paid conference registrations in exchange for hearing aid purchases that have been publicized recently in public forums and offers the following general guidance:

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have updated the Advanced Beneficiary Notice, whose most recent update to the Advanced Beneficiary Notice (ABN) goes into effect on June 30, 2023.

All audiology practices, who bill items and services to traditional Medicare, need to replace their ABNs, dated with an expiration date of 06/30/23, with a new, updated (with updated language) ABN, dated with an expiration date of 01/31/2026. The form is not valid if it is not in its most updated version.