Donna Sorkin, the Executive Director of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACIAlliance.org) recently did an online presentation about the changes in the criteria for adults covered by Medicare. By dogged persistence and seven years of work and cooperation with surgeons, audiologists, and medical...
Aetna follows Medicare rules in considering cochlear implants and auditory brainstem implants as prosthetics. Medicare considers as prosthetics "[c]ochlear implants and auditory brainstem implants, i.e., devices that replace the function of cochlear structures or auditory nerve and provide electrical ener...
Cochlear implants and older adults Only 5-10% of adult cochlear implant candidates in the US have received cochlear implants, despite the fact that Medicare and many insurance carriers currently pay for the procedure [20,21]. Approximately 50,000 cochlear implant surgeries are currently performed pe...
34,38 The FDA-approved audiometric criteria for cochlear implants have evolved over time: pure-tone thresholds for eligible individuals have expanded to include not only profound hearing losses, individuals with preserved low-frequency hearing became candidates for hearing-preservation implants in 2014, ...
Focuses on the request of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association for Medicare policy changes in New York that would pay for the programming of the speech processor in cochlear implants. Information on existing Medicare reimbursement rules governing independent audiologists; Importance of ...
Cochlear implants have helped hundreds of thousands of profoundly deaf people connect with the hearing world in more than 30 years since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved them for use. In that time, there’s beenconstant improvementin outcomes, to the extent that many impla...
Many insurance companies cover Hybrid Hearing solutions for those who qualify, including Medicare†and Medicaid††. Visit a Hearing Implant Specialist to see if a Hybrid Hearing solution may be able to help you hear the sounds you’re missing. ...