Audiologists Improve the Quality of Care
As experts in the identification and treatment of hearing and balance disorders for patients across the lifespan, audiologists are critical to ensuring high quality care associated with a variety of illnesses or injuries. Audiologists are already part of a variety of quality and value-based care payment arrangements such as Medicare’s Quality Reporting Program and successful participation in such programs ensure adequate reimbursement to audiologists and reinforces their value in the overall health care system. Learn more.
Member Highlight
The Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA) is dedicated to the advancement of practitioner excellence, high ethical standards, professional autonomy and sound business practices in the provision of quality audiologic care. ADA was founded by nine practitioners in 1977, as the Academy of Dispensing Audiologists, to foster and support the professional dispensing of hearing aids by qualified audiologists in rehabilitative practices. Later, in 1988, ADA developed the concept of the Doctor of Audiology (AuD) degree and provided much of the energy behind the movement for the transition of audiology to a doctoring healthcare profession. This goal, as well, has been largely met, as the AuD is now the degree for audiology practice offered by educational institutions in the United States.