tci Part B Insider - 2006 Issue 2

AUDIOLOGY: Don't Discount Diagnostic Aural Rehab Codes Just Yet

Keep track of time and new codes 92626-92627 can earn you extra cashWhen CPT 2006 changed the descriptors for speech therapy codes 92506-92507 to remove any reference to aural rehabilitation, many professionals may have believed they couldn't bill for aural rehab any longer.After all, Medicare assigned a status code of "I" to two new codes for auditory rehabilitation, 92630 and 92633, on the grounds that Medicare will only pay for diagnostic audiology, not rehabilitation. But that ban only applies to audiologists, not to speech language pathologists, according to Steven White, director of health care economics and advocacy with...

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