TY - JOUR
T1 - Cognitive-communicative disorders of right cerebrovascular accident patients and reimbursement for treatment
AU - Boyle, Mary
AU - Strikowsky-Harvey, Shari
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - Speech-language pathologists frequently diagnose and treat individuals with cognitive-communicative disorders, but they sometimes encounter difficulty receiving reimbursement for those services from third-party payers. Often, reimbursement becomes an issue because the documentation provided fails to emphasize the linguistic and communication aspects of treat-ment that are precisely the components that make the speech-language pathologist's role with this population unique. By analyzing how the elements of language, cognition, and communication are interactively affected for each patient and by emphasizing those relationships in treatment, speech-language pathologists can communicate the importance of their role in the treatment process and increase the likelihood of reimbursement for services.
AB - Speech-language pathologists frequently diagnose and treat individuals with cognitive-communicative disorders, but they sometimes encounter difficulty receiving reimbursement for those services from third-party payers. Often, reimbursement becomes an issue because the documentation provided fails to emphasize the linguistic and communication aspects of treat-ment that are precisely the components that make the speech-language pathologist's role with this population unique. By analyzing how the elements of language, cognition, and communication are interactively affected for each patient and by emphasizing those relationships in treatment, speech-language pathologists can communicate the importance of their role in the treatment process and increase the likelihood of reimbursement for services.
KW - Cognitive-communicative disorders
KW - Reimbursement
KW - Treatment documentation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0039844505&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1055/s-2008-1064027
DO - 10.1055/s-2008-1064027
M3 - Article
C2 - 10597115
AN - SCOPUS:0039844505
SN - 0734-0478
VL - 20
SP - 335
EP - 340
JO - Seminars in Speech and Language
JF - Seminars in Speech and Language
IS - 4
ER -