Speech and Hearing Clause Samples

Speech and Hearing. We will pay for speech and hearing services, including hearing aids, hearing aid batteries, and repairs. These services include one hearing examination per year to determine the need for corrective action. Speech therapy required for a condition amenable to significant clinical improvement within a two-month period, beginning with the first day of therapy, will be covered when performed by an audiologist, language pathologist, a speech therapist, and/or otolaryngologist.

Speech and Hearing evaluation and treatment of speech language, voice, hearing, and fluency disorders. ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Tobacco Cessation Services – face-to-face individual and group tobacco cessation counseling as defined at 130 CMR 433.435(B), 130 CMR 405.472 and 130 CMR 410.447 and pharmacotherapy treatment, including nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Coverage Types Service MassHealth Standard & CommonHealth Enrollees MassHealth Family Assistance Enrollees CarePlus Special Kids Special Care Transportation (emergent) – ambulance (air and land) transport that generally is not scheduled, but is needed on an Emergency basis, including Specialty Care Transport that is ambulance transport of a critically injured or ill Enrollee from one facility to another, requiring care that is beyond the scope of a paramedic. ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Transportation (non-emergent, to out-of-state location) – ambulance and other common carriers that generally are pre-arranged to transport an Enrollee to a service that is located outside a 50-mile radius of the Massachusetts border. ✓ ✓ ✓ Urgent Care Clinic Services – MCO Covered Services set forth in this Appendix C provided by an urgent care clinic consistent with 130 CMR 455.000 and Section 39 of Ch. 260 of the Acts of 2020. ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Vaccine Counseling Services ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Vision Care (medical component) – eye examinations (a) once per 12-month period for Enrollees under the age of 21 and (b) once per 24-month period for Enrollees 21 and over, and, for all Enrollees, whenever Medically Necessary; vision training; ocular prosthesis; contacts, when medically necessary, as a medical treatment for a medical condition such as keratoconus; and bandage lenses. ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ▇▇▇▇ – as prescribed by a physician related to a medical condition. ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Denotes a Non-MCO Covered Service (wrap service) The Contractor need not provide, but shall coordinate, for each Enrollee the delivery of all MassHealth services (see 130 CMR 400.000 through 499.000) for which such Enrollee is eligible (see 130 CMR 450.105) but which are not currently MCO Covered Services. Coordination of such services shall include, but not be limited to, informing the Enrollee of the availability of such services and the processes for accessing those services. The general list and descriptions, below, of MassHealth services that are not MCO Covered Services do not constitute a limitation on the Contractor’s obligation to coordinate all such services for each Enrollee eligible to receive those services. Coverag...

Speech and Hearing evaluation and treatment of speech language, voice, hearing, and fluency disorders.     Tobacco Cessation Services – face-to-face individual and group tobacco cessation counseling as defined at 130 CMR 433.435(B), 130 CMR 405.472 and 130 CMR 410.447 and pharmacotherapy treatment, including nicotine replacement therapy (NRT).     Transportation (emergent) – ambulance (air and land) transport that generally is not scheduled, but is needed on an Emergency basis, including Specialty Care Transport that is ambulance transport of a critically injured or ill Enrollee from one facility to another, requiring care that is beyond the scope of a paramedic.     Transportation (non-emergent, to out-of-state location) – ambulance and other common carriers that generally are pre-arranged to transport an Enrollee to a service that is located outside a 50-mile radius of the Massachusetts border.    Vaccine Counseling Services     Vision Care (medical component) – eye examinations (a) once per 12-month period for Enrollees under the age of 21 and (b) once per 24-month period for Enrollees 21 and over, and, for all Enrollees, whenever Medically Necessary; vision training; ocular prosthesis;     Coverage Types Service MassHealth Standard & CommonHealth Enrollees MassHealth Family Assistance Enrollees CarePlus Special Kids Special Care contacts, when medically necessary, as a medical treatment for a medical condition such as keratoconus; and bandage lenses. ▇▇▇▇ – as prescribed by a physician related to a medical condition.     The Contractor need not provide, but shall coordinate, for each Enrollee the delivery of all MassHealth services (see 130 CMR 400.000 through 499.000) for which such Enrollee is eligible (see 130 CMR 450.105) but which are not currently MCO Covered Services. Coordination of such services shall include, but not be limited to, informing the Enrollee of the availability of such services and the processes for accessing those services. The general list and descriptions, below, of MassHealth services that are not MCO Covered Services do not constitute a limitation on the Contractor’s obligation to coordinate all such services for each Enrollee eligible to receive those services. Coverage Types Service MassHealth Standard & CommonHealth Enrollees MassHealth Family Assistance Enrollees CarePlus Special Kids Special Care Abortion - includes, in addition to the procedure itself, pre-operative evaluation and examination; pre-operative cou...