If you’ve been referred for swallowing therapy, one of the first questions you’re probably asking is whether your insurance will cover it. It’s a reasonable concern, and the honest answer is that coverage varies, but swallowing therapy is covered by many insurance plans, including Medicare, Medicaid, and most commercial insurers,
Most physicians and specialists encounter dysphagia regularly: in post-stroke patients, in older adults with declining function, in oncology patients mid-treatment or in recovery. The clinical question isn’t usually whether swallowing problems exist. It’s when a formal swallowing evaluation is actually warranted, and what to tell the patient while you’re making
Swallowing is something most of us do hundreds of times a day without thinking about it. So when something starts to feel off, it can be easy to write it off as a fluke: a piece of food that went down wrong, a dry throat, a bad day. But swallowing