The International Tinnitus Journal

Managed Care and Tinnitus - A Call for Outcomes/ Triage Systems for Tinnitus Diagnosis/Treatment

Managed care providers need to be provided with stateof- the-art information upon which decisions for reimbursement to patients can be made fairly to assure maximum availability of high quality of care. Physicians, audiologists , basic scientists, and all professions included in the symptom of tinnitus are called upon to direct their energies to assure to the tinnitus patient quality state-of-the-art care for tinnitus diagnosis and treatment by the development of outcomes analysis; and the development of a triage system for the medical! audiologic evaluation/ treatment of tinnitus.