Speech-Language Therapy: Clinical Review Criteria Guidelines

List of Contents

• Speech Therapy Services – skilled, unskilled; Coverage

• Medicare benefit coverage

• Medicaid benefit coverage

• VA benefit coverage  

• Screening for speech-language delays in preschool-age children

• Speech-Language Initial Visits for Specific Abnormalities  

• Chronic acquired disorders affecting speech 

• Aphasia

• Melodic Intonation Therapy for Persistent Aphasia  

• Layngectomy

• ALS

• Dysphagia – evaluation of swallowing mechanisms

• Pediatric Speech-Language Therapy

  • Language delays
  • Dyslexia
  • Hyperlexia
  • Hearing impairments
  • Augmentative communication needs for children
  • Coverage
  • Developmental services referral form – example - link

• Cerebral Palsy

• Cleft lip/palate

• Velopharyngeal dysfunction (VPD)

• Stuttering

• Lidcombe program for stuttering  

• Apraxia/dyspraxia of Speech

• Autism, Asperger Syndrome and Other Pervasive Developmental Disorders

• Oral-motor and other therapies for dysphagia

• Tongue Thrust Disorders/Therapy

• Traumatic brain injury

• Vocal Cord Disorders – Diagnosis & Management

• Laryngoscopy, diagnostic; Videostroboscopic laryngoscopy

• Vocal Cord Dysfunction (VCD)

• Vocal Cord Injections/Injection Laryngoplasty and Related Procedures

• Discontinuation of Speech-Language Benefits

• Notes – childhood disorders and review issues

• CMS Edits for Speech-Language Pathology

• Quality/Outcome Assessment of Speech-Language Therapy Programs  

• Speech - Communication DME: Augmentive Communication Aides, Communication boards; Speech generating devices; Speech aids, electronic; Tracheo-esophageal voice prostheses, Indwelling; References/resources 

• Audiology/Hearing-related therapy & procedures: Audiological testing/Audiometry/Audiology services; Early Intervention Programs; Auditory Brain Stem Implants; Auditory osseointegrated & auditory brain stem devices; 

• Aural rehabilitation therapy for hearing-impaired patients; Brain stem auditory evoked response (BER, BAER); Carbogen inhalation therapy for the treatment of sudden hearing loss;  Cochlear and brainstem  implants

• Audio-visual entrainment;

• Addendum

• Software for computerized speech;

• Speech-Language Pathology Terms, Acronyms  

• Speech-Language Pathologist - work, credentials

• References and Resources for Speech-Language Therapy

• Speech-Language Notes

• Web resources

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