Coding and Reimbursement for Auditory Rehabilitation

Medicare uses the resource-based relative value scale to establish its annual physician fee schedule, which includes audiology and speech-language pathology procedures. Each procedure includes three components - professional (physician work), technical (practice expense), and professional liability (malpractice) and each component receives relative value units (RVUs). [...] CIGNA posts its position 0180, which provides different coverage for audiology and speech-language pathology aspects of auditory rehabilitation and lists the four CPT codes described in this column.