About me
Laura Jones, AuD, CCC-A is a clinical audiologist serving adult and pediatric patients at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. Dr. Jones earned her undergraduate degree in Philosophy Neuroscience and Psychology with minors in Legal Studies and Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. She holds a doctorate in clinical audiology from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine where she worked in the Vanderbilt Cochlear Implant Research Laboratory under the direction of Dr. René Gifford. Her experience includes adult and pediatric diagnostic evaluations, electrophysiologic measures, vestibular assessment, acoustic and bone-anchored amplification, and cochlear implantation. She is a member of the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Cochlear Implant Team. Dr. Jones is certified by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA, CCC-A) and licensed to practice in the District of Columbia and Virginia. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Audiology (AAA) and member of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACIA).
Clinical areas of focus
- Bone Anchored Hearing Aid Assessment
- Bone Anchored Hearing Aids (BAHA)
- Cochlear Implant Hearing Aid Assessment
- Cochlear Implant Hearing Aid Surgery
- Cochlear Implants
- Hearing Loss
- Hearing Loss (ASYMMETRICAL)
- Hearing Loss (CENTRAL)
- Hearing Loss (CONDUCTIVE)
- Hearing Loss (MIXED)
- Hearing Loss (NEURAL)
- Muffled Hearing
- Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) Testing
Conditions and procedures
Procedures I perform
- Acoustic Immittance Testing
- Amplification For Hearing Loss
- Audiometry Testing
- Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) Test
- Bone Anchored Hearing Aid Assessment
- Bone Anchored Hearing Aids (BAHA)
- Cochlear Implant Hearing Aid Assessment
- Cochlear Implant Hearing Aid Surgery
- Cochlear Implants
- Conditioned Play Audiometry (CPA)
- Electrocochleography
- Hearing Aids
- Hearing Evaluation
- Newborn Hearing Screening
- Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) Testing
- Tympanometry
- Vestibular Services
- Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA)
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select (aka Senior Advantage)
- Blue Choice Advantage & Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans/ UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans HMO, POS, PPO
- United Healthcare Options (PPO) (includes Empire PPO, GEHA, Compass Rose)
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv/Special Needs Plans
- Medicare Fee for Service
- Kaiser PermanenteSelect-Added Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Signature-Added Choice
- Kaiser Virginia Premier
- Kaiser MD Medicaid MCO
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
- CFBCBS Federal Employee Program (Std/Basic PPO/Blue Focus)
- CFBCBS EPO
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS) (PPO)
- UHC Community Plan of MD
- Aetna Innovations: HMO & EPO Plus
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Aetna HMO
- Open POS II
- Innovation Health: Open POS Plus
- Choice POS & Choice POS II
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Open EPO Plus
- Opoen HMO Option
- Open HMO
- Innovation Health: POS
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- Innovation Health: Open Network Only Plus
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Innovation Health: POS Plus
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- Innovation Health: PPO
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- Innovation Health: Indemnity
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- BlueChoice Open Access
- CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- HealthyBlue PPO
- CFBSBC Blue Preferred PPO
- Choice Fund PPO
- PPO and PPO Plus
- CIGNA EPO
- POS OA & OA Plus
- Network OA
- CIGNA HMO Open Access (OA)
- United Healthcare Choice
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- First Health PPO
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- CFBCBS Maryland Point of Service Plan (MPOS)
- Tricare Prime
- CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Tricare for Life (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- United Student Resources
- CFBCBS BlueChoice HMO
- CFBCBS (NCA) Indemnity
- CFBCBS Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) & OCI Direct (HMO)
- FIRST HEALTH
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund) Innovation Health: Network Only Plus
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- CIGNA Indemnity
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- MedStar Select (MedStar Associates' Plan)
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
Education
Other Certification: American Speech Language Hearing Association, -
Allied Health Education: Vanderbilt University (2018)
Hospital affiliations
News and publications
Holder, J. T., Levin, L. M., & Gifford, R. H. (2018). Speech Recognition in Noise for Adults With Normal Hearing: Age-Normative Performance for AzBio, BKB-SIN, and QuickSIN. Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology, 39(10), e972–e978. https://doi.org/10.1097/MAO.0000000000002003
Racca J. M., Jones L. L., Dwyer R. T., Ferguson M., Sunderhaus L., Hood L. J., & Gifford R. H. (2022). Changes in Acoustic Absorbance Pre– and Post–Cochlear Implantation. American Journal of Audiology. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_AJA-21-00146