and Medicine issued a report, entitled Hearing Health Care for Adults: Priorities for Improving Access and Affordability, which recommended that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services examine pathways for enhancing access to assessment for and delivery of auditory rehabilitation services through Medicare, including reimbursement to audiologists for these services . (9) Administrative requirements for referral, plan of care, consultation with the attending physician or other health care practitioner, and oversight unnecessarily delay care and may increase costs. (10) Medicare beneficiaries should have access to the same level of audiologic care as is available in the Veterans Administration, under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, and under private insurance. 3. Medicare coverage of audiologist services (a) In general Section 1861(s) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395x(s) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (2)— (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting but excluding services furnished by a qualified audiologist before the semicolon