According to “NPR,” the orders includes plans to allow hearing aids to be sold over the counter at pharmacies, much like Obama administration efforts that strived to make hearing aids less like pricy medical devices and as easy to purchase as reading glasses.
Their latest letter follows a December 2019 letter in which they also urged the FDA to finalize rules for OTC hearing aids.
Johnson County Department of Health and Environment (JCDHE), located within the Kansas City metropolitan region, is offering the DPP lifestyle change program in ASL to bridge the language gap that can traditionally hamper efforts to provide health-related services to the hearing-impaired community.
The AMA reports that giving commercial health insurers virtually unlimited power to exert control over an issue as significant and sensitive as patient health care is bad for patients and not good for the nation’s health care system.
Read MoreThe three major audiology organizations held a meeting designed to survey the professional landscape and identify areas of agreement for potential collaborative initiatives to better serve audiology.
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