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Kaiser Permanente

Integrated healthcare provider and payer platform

Audiologist

Medical, Clinical & VeterinaryConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeOlympia, WA, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A minimum of one year of clinical experience, concurrent with doctorate training, is required.
  • A Clinical Doctorate in Audiology (Au.D.) is required.
  • An Audiologist License in Washington is required at hire.
  • Verbal and written communication skills are required.
  • The ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with clients, co-workers, and other health care professionals is required.
  • Knowledge of clinical competency in auditory and vestibular diagnostic and rehabilitation audiology, including amplification devices, is required.

Responsibilities

  • Provide evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, education, and appropriate referral to patients and their families for hearing and balance disorders, within the integrated care delivery model, and provide feedback to families, physicians, and other team members regarding diagnosis, treatment, and progress.
  • For patients aged five years and older, provide comprehensive hearing diagnostic evaluations, including pure-tone air/bone thresholds, speech reception thresholds, word recognition, middle-ear analysis (tympanometry, volume, and acoustic reflexes), and site-of-lesion determination; interpret results, assess patient lifestyle, counsel patients on results and recommended follow-up and treatment, determine medical referrals as needed, and complete required visit documentation, reporting, billing, and service capture.
  • Counsel patients on hearing loss, hearing aids, and listening strategies; select appropriate assistive listening and amplification devices; set realistic expectations; custom-fit and program hearing aids; troubleshoot hearing-aid problems; provide in-office maintenance and repair; perform electroacoustic analysis and real-ear measurement to ensure patient benefit; counsel patients and families on tinnitus, hearing conservation, and communication strategies; demonstrate understanding of the physiologic and psychological effects of hearing loss across ages; and complete required visit documentation, reporting, billing, and service capture.
  • For children under five, provide comprehensive pediatric hearing evaluations, including visual reinforcement and play audiometry, otoacoustic emissions, tympanometry, acoustic reflexes, auditory brainstem evoked response with site-of-lesion determination, and newborn hearing screening; interpret results, counsel parents on results and recommended follow-up and treatment, determine medical referrals as needed, and complete required visit documentation, reporting, billing, and service capture.
  • Perform evoked-potential testing to determine vestibular and audiologic site of lesion, including electrocochleography, vestibular evoked myogenic potential, videonystagmography, and neurologic and threshold auditory brainstem evoked response; interpret results, counsel parents on results and recommended follow-up and treatment, determine medical referrals as needed, and complete required visit documentation, reporting, billing, and service capture.
  • Collaborate with other provider staff to support best practices and positive care outcomes, including collaboration with Physical Therapy on vestibular disorders and with Oncology on ototoxicity monitoring.
  • Provide in-service education for provider staff and patient education for group visits and seminars as requested.
  • Meet continuing medical education and other mandatory training requirements, participate in scheduled departmental training, identify learning needs, and participate in continuing education programs to address them.

Desired Qualifications

  • Four years of experience in diagnostic and rehabilitative audiology is preferred.
  • Expert-level competence in required areas is preferred, with specialty skills that may include advanced vestibular evaluation, bone-anchored hearing aids, cochlear implants, and tinnitus treatment.

About the Company

Kaiser Permanente

Integrated healthcare provider and payer platform

Kaiser Permanente runs an integrated healthcare platform that lets members manage and pay medical, premium, and pharmacy bills online. It serves Medicare Advantage, Individual and Family, and non-employer plans, offering options to pay as a guest or set up payment plans. The platform works by presenting a centralized online portal where users can view bills, choose how to pay, and handle multiple types of charges in one place. Revenue comes from premiums and medical services fees, while the service aims to reduce administrative work for both providers and patients and encourage on-time payments. What sets Kaiser Permanente apart is its combination of healthcare services with a single billing experience across multiple plan types, focusing on a user-friendly, centralized payment process rather than handling billing through separate systems. Its goal is to provide a straightforward, reliable way for members to manage and pay their bills, improving convenience and payment timeliness.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Grant
Total funding
$7.5M
Headquarters
Oakland, CA
Founded
1945

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