Table of Contents

1. What Is Practice Management?
I. Principles
2. Professional Ethics and Audiology
3. Quality: The Controlling Principle of Practice Management
4. Human Resources Management in Audiology
5. Marketing Principles and Application
6. Private Practice Issues
II. Practice Management Applications
7. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Fundamentals
8. Outcome Measures and Evidence-Based Practice
9. Documentation in Clinical Audiology: An Information Management Perspective
10. Infection Control
11. Cerumen Management
12. Supervision
III. Business Applications
13. Writing a Business Plan
14. Designing an Audiology Practice
15. Practice Accounting
16. The Evolution of Reimbursement for Audiology
17. Proposing Audiology Services to Group Providers
18. Computer Principles and Applications
Appendix I: Three Professional Organizations' Codes of Ethics
Appendix II: Three Professional Organizations' Scope of Practice

About the Author

Director, Division of Audiology, Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

Reviews

Praise for this book: "This text is a wonderful update, which nicely addresses the changes in the field of audiology since the upgrading of the educational requirements to the doctorate level...The appendixes that are available for application to your own practice that are used in the marketing section of this text would be very useful to anyone who would be contemplating a marketing strategy or even simply reevaluating their current strategy...The value of the business applications section...is very informative, and again, tremendously useful appendixes are included for practitioners to be able to adapt and use as guidelines for their own customized rationale...this text is a practical reference for any practitioner who is either in a supervisory role or starting or even reevaluating a private practice."--Otology & Neurotology Praise for the first edition: "A comprehensive view of clinical audiologic practice..well-balanced introduction to areas that graduate professional programs have traditionally ignored..The editors have succeeded at their task of conveying the information necessary for successful practice as an audiologist..an up-to-date resource." --Head & Neck