‘Hearing Review’ Survey of RIC Pricing in 2017
Hearing aid pricing trends relative to practice affiliation and gross revenues.
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CTA President Gary Shapiro to Deliver Keynote at HLAA2018 Convention
Shapiro has helped direct policymakers and business leaders on the importance of innovation in the US economy and helped ensure that technology is accessible to people with disabilities.
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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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Getting Ahead of the Curve, Part 1: Four Cornerstones of a Fee-for-Service Clinic
The hearing healthcare landscape is changing, but there are several ways to not only survive but thrive in this new age including Medicare Advantage programs and constantly improving direct-to-consumer hearing devices. Part 1 looks at practical pathways for shifting to a fee-for-service (unbundled) business model.
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Letters: Hearing Aids and Wines
Garry Gordon, MS, Del Hawk, AuD, and Michael J. Metz, PhD, say that marketing conditions are changing, and not everyone will need a Rolls Royce if a Ford or Chevrolet will do. They state that both hearing aid manufacturers and the various professional delivery channels need to recognize and acknowledge these changes.
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IntriCon Announces Sales Gains of 29.9% for 2017
IntriCon Corporation, the Minneapolis-based manufacturer of branded hearing aids and hearables including hi HealthInnovations and EarVenture and the new owner of Hearing Help Express, recorded sales of $88.3 million, up 29.9% from $68.0 million in 2016. The company is expanding its manufacturing footprint and is looking ahead to the emerging OTC hearing aid market.
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ADM Tronics to Begin Advertising Tinnitus Shield in ‘Tinnitus Today’
Tinnitus Shield has been designed to protect against damaging sounds shown to cause tinnitus for individuals at risk of acquiring this condition.
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InnerScope Hearing Technologies Launches New Website for PSAPs
Hearingbenefit.com is the company’s dedicated direct-to-consumer website store, which is designed to complete the purchase phase for the consumer.
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InnerScope Hearing Technologies Enters into LOI with Eltima for FlexiHub Software
The LOI is designed to give InnerScope a universal tele-audiology solution for professionals to remotely program hearing aid devices, according to the announcement.
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Best News Stories and Columns in Hearing Review, 2017
Here are 50 news items, columns, and webinars that you should not have missed in 2017 that were featured in “The Hearing Review,” along with a second list of news stories by month in 2017.
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Staff Standpoint: Editor’s Picks: Best Features 2017
It was a wild year, but that’s good in the publishing world because there was never a lack of great information.
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Hearing Aids for Adult Mild-to-Moderate Hearing Loss: An Interview with Melanie Ferguson, PhD
Even though the benefits of hearing aids are widely known in our field, the fact is that there is not a plethora of high-level scientific evidence proving the efficacy of hearing aids.
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Loyalty Marketing Strategies in Hearing Healthcare
We must embrace the new OTC technology because of the role it can play in the service of our patients’ hearing care needs. We can expand the market by providing it as a treatment option. We can implement our patient loyalty programs and make sure we hold on to the FDA-approved hearing aid market that is currently served. These new patients/entrants into our practices should stay loyal to us for all of their fitting needs, trading up when medically necessary, all their lives.
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Managed Care: Some Caveats and Common Sense for Hearing Care Professionals
While there are managed care programs that make sense for your patients and your practice, the author advocates for carefully analyzing each program and making an informed decision before agreeing to participate, rather than simply enrolling out of a sense of fear.
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Managed Care: Threat or Opportunity?
Managed care continues to pose challenges and opportunities for hearing healthcare professionals. In 2017, the number of individual Medicare Advantage enrollees enrolled in a plan with a hearing aid benefit increased to 65% from only 47% in 2015. This article presents a perspective on the evolution of managed care and how dispensing professionals can evolve and adapt in these changing times.
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