NationsBenefits to Manage Sam’s Club Hearing Centers Nationwide
The partnership will integrate NationsHearing clinical services and technology into the retail club’s locations across the US.
The partnership will integrate NationsHearing clinical services and technology into the retail club’s locations across the US.
In the ”New Age” of patient autonomy—as persons with hearing loss increasingly have the ability to self-direct their care by testing and purchasing hearing devices over-the-counter—counseling and customization are components that still require a human element, and at the heart of this human element is Interpersonal Audiology.
This month’s cover is meant to depict the turmoil that our industry finds itself in, as disruptive technology threatens to change some long-standing rules about hearing aid distribution and over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids move a step closer to reality.
How does an audiologist compete with Big Box chains like Costco, electronic shopping carts on the Internet, and one-stop mail-order shopping through health insurance companies? Holly Hosford-Dunn uses a prescient article written 14 years ago to illustrate the solution(s).
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