Cracking the Code: Demystifying Billing and Coding

Participants will learn the fundamentals to prepare them for billing and coding practices as an audiologist. Academy’s chair of the Coding and Reimbursement Committee, Anna Jilla, AuD, PhD, will provide a lively presentation of good practices in documentation and compliance and primary resources for payer information. She will also engage participants in reviewing select case vignettes to determine appropriate CPT and ICD codes.

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Speaker

Anna Jilla, AuD, PhD is currently the Jo Mayo Endowed assistant professor of audiology in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. She completed her graduate studies at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and her post-doctoral fellowship in Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Jilla’s academic, clinical, and research interests are in payer policy, public health, and health economics. She currently serves as the chair of the Coding and Reimbursement Committee for the American Academy of Audiology and vice president of professional issues and a member of the Board of Directors of the Texas Academy of Audiology.