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Reward Yourself with a Career as a School-Based Speech-Language Pathologist
Wednesday, 10 May 2006

NEW SCHOOL BROCHURE AVAILABLE FOR ASHA MEMBERS

ASHA has developed a new brochure, “Reward Yourself with a Career as a School-Based Speech-Language Pathologist,” developed to entice high school students to choose a career as a school-based speech-language pathologist (SLP), attract college graduates to school settings, and to help career SLPs choose school-based practice. The brochure highlights the benefits of choosing a career as a school-based SLP and why schools are an attractive work setting. The brochure can be a good tool to promote school practice at career awareness presentations and career fairs, to use when promoting the professions, or to use to recruit prospective employees. It was developed under the 2006 FI on Personnel Issues in Healthcare and Education.

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State Association Publications
Monday, 08 May 2006
New Speech, Language, & Hearing Milestones: Birth to Age Five DVD Covering children from birth to age five, this new DVD is full of examples of normal speech, language, and hearing development and tips on when to seek treatment from speech-language pathologists and audiologists.
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Speech-Language Pathology Practices Update
Friday, 28 April 2006
Hello Headliners:

This message is to inform you that the March-April SLP Practices Update is now available on the ASHA website at: http://www.asha.org/members/slp/updates/.  The SLP Practices Update is a bimonthly posting about ASHA's Speech-Language Pathology practice-related activities.  The SLP Practices Update is prepared as an ASHA member benefit.  Dissemination to other individuals, state associations or other organizational newsletters, and electronic mailing lists is encouraged.  The information contained in the update may be reprinted without permission.
 
 
CMS Proposes Payment Changes for Inpatient Hospital Services
Wednesday, 26 April 2006
On April 25, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a notice of proposed rule making that will significantly change the way the agency develops payment policies under the Inpatient Hospital Prospective Payment System (PPS).  The proposed rule can be viewed at: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/AcuteInpatientPPS/downloads/cms1488p.pdf.
 
If implemented as proposed, the new payment methodology would revise payment rates for inpatient stays to be based on DRGs weighed on hospital costs versus hospital charges, and also would be adjusted to reflect the severity of the patient’s condition.
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Health Care Economics Committee
Tuesday, 25 April 2006
Hello Headliners:
 
The Health Care Economics Committee held a conference call on April 13th. The committee discussed:
  • CPT Code 96116 Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Exam which, when changed last year, was limited to use by psychologists and physicians. This change occurred as an editorial revision in closed door session, so ASHA became aware after it had happened. We are working to revise the definition to allow SLPs to use the code (they have used it in the past). Discussed strategy for addressing this issue.
  • ICD changes - The committee has been working on proposing changes in the ICD manual of diagnostic codes. Two ASHA staff members recently attended a meeting of ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee and an audiology sub-group has recommendations for submission. The SLP sub-group is soliciting input from the Special Interest Divisions
  • The committee has submitted two proposals for presentations at the ASHA Annual Convention in Miami.
  • Committee members are writing articles for a special issue of the ASHA Leader on reimbursement.
  • The audiology subcommittee is working on two new procedures for CPT: VNG and canalith repositioning. They are collaborating with AAA and other audiology organizations on this effort.
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Innovative Programs
Tuesday, 25 April 2006
Dear Headliners:
 
Please note that a table of innovative programs to address personnel vacancies in health care and education is available on the ASHA web site. Thank you to each ASHA member that submitted information regarding the creative approaches that you are utilizing to address personnel vacancies in different venues across the country. 
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Enabling Devices Introduces Two Innovative Communicators
Tuesday, 25 April 2006
We thought that members of your speech-language-hearing association should know about our NEW Augmentative Communicators – the Talk 4 and Talk 8!  Both are powerful, yet affordable, communication tools loaded with many innnovative features including:
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