Livingston Hearing Aid Center Merges with Pro Hearing in Oklahoma City
The partnership expands Livingston’s network, which now includes two Oklahoma City locations previously operated by Pro Hearing.
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Sonova to Purchase Alpaca Audiology
Sonova has signed an agreement to acquire Alpaca Audiology, one of the largest independent networks of audiological care clinics in the United States, for $310 million. Founded in 2011, Alpaca has over 500 employees and operates around 220 clinics across the country.
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HHTM Releases Audiologist Hearing Aid Maintenance & Repair Survey
Hearing Health & Technology Matters (HHTM) announced the release of results of a survey of audiologists regarding their experience with hearing aid maintenance and repair over the past year (2019), prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vision Benefits of America Partners with Your Hearing Network
Vision Benefits of America, Inc (VBA), a commercial group benefits organization, announced it has...
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Audiology Exclusive Aims to Drive Down Costs for Hearing Care Professionals
Unlike a buying group, the concept behind the Audiology Exclusive system has been compared to discount sites like Groupon. On the company’s website, hearing professionals will find short-term promotions each week from a variety of different hearing healthcare businesses—supplies, equipment, hearing devices, software, etc.
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AuDConnex Launches Micro-Grant Hearing Aid Program
The grant opportunity is being made available to hearing healthcare providers who are aligned with philanthropic work in their community and abroad.
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AuDStandard Partners with Hearing Tracker
In addition to offering hearing care professionals discounted pricing and the freedom to choose between customized services or money-saving rebates, AuDStandard members will now reportedly receive a boost in online visibility through Hearing Tracker’s lead generation platform:
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Hearing Aid Sales Increase by 2.5% in First Quarter of 2019
Hearing aid net unit sales in the United States increased by 2.5% during the first quarter (Q1) of 2019, totaling 1,000,653 units—the second time unit volume has ever exceeded 1 million in a quarter.
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Blog: BlameySaunders and the “Blended Model” in Hearing Aid Dispensing
Commentary on the recent purchase of BlameySaunders Hears by Sonova and the future potential for the “blended service model” in hearing aid dispensing.
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Hearing Health & Technology Matters Releases 2018 Hearing Professional Dispensing Survey
One of the most striking responses from the survey revealed that over half of all respondents said they believed hearing aids are not affordable and accessible for most Americans today.
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AuDConnex Appoints Paul Harkness Executive Vice President
AuDConnex announced the addition of Paul Harkness to their team as executive vice president. Harkness has more than two decades of experience in the hearing care industry.
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William Demant and Philips Enter into Hearing Aid Branding Partnership
William Demant—parent group of Oticon, Sonic, and Bernafon—has announced a licensing agreement with Philips to bring Philips-branded solutions to hearing healthcare. Combining William Demant’s hearing aid technology with Philips’ global brand presence in healthcare, the cooperation will enrich the hearing healthcare experience and support the healthy lifestyle and active life of even more people with hearing loss, say the companies.
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Amplifon to Purchase GAES Group for $616 Million
Amplifon SpA has announced its intent to purchase the privately owned GAES Group, Spain’s largest hearing aid distributor, for €528 million (US$616.6 million). “This major acquisition represents a key milestone in the history of our company and perfectly fits Amplifon’s growth strategy, allowing us to consolidate our global leadership and enabling us to become a market leader in Spain, as well as consolidate our market position in Portugal while also entering the Latin American region,” said Amplifon CEO Enrico Vita.
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Etymotic Research Merges with Lucid Hearing/Lucid Audio
Two well-known names and company owners in hearing device manufacturing are joining forces. Etymotic Research Founder Mead Killion announced that his company has merged with Lucid Hearing/Lucid Audio, a prominent hearing aid and PSAP manufacturer owned by Henry Smith, founder of Authorized Hearing Systems (AHS), America Hears, and more recently Liberty Hearing Aids and Lucid Audio.
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‘Hearing Review’ Survey of RIC Pricing in 2017
Hearing aid pricing trends relative to practice affiliation and gross revenues.
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Letters: Costco Replies to Hearing Review Article “The Costco Effect”
While Costco’s Christian Anthis likes the article, he takes exception to the characterization of the devices being offered at Costco as “entry-level hearing aids.”
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Walgreens and Starkey Collaborate on Walgreens Hearing; Unique Expansion Program for Current Practice Owners
Called Walgreens Hearing, the new outlets are unique to the marketplace because they are designed to create new business opportunities for existing dispensing offices to partner with Starkey and serve patients at Walgreens stores in their communities. Walgreens Hearing currently exist in two pilot stores that opened last month in the Minneapolis-St Paul market, with about six others opening in three other states, some by mid-April.
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IntriCon Adds Power-Efficient Wireless Audio Streaming to Its Hearing Devices
IntriCon has taken another major step forward in its hearing aid and hearables offerings—this time adding audio streaming functionality. IntriCon’s and NXP’s R&D teams merged hearing aid engineering and wireless audio streaming semiconductor technology to deliver hearing aid devices that can stream wireless audio from IntriCon’s wireless accessories. It intends to launch this technology—coupled with a remote microphone—into its Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) and Direct-to-Insurance (DTI) channels in the first half of 2018.
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