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Hearing benefits for insurances are changing as rapidly as healthcare. There are third-party companies now managing hearing benefits from afar disassociated with the insurance company itself. These third-party companies dictate to providers which manufacturers that they can work with and what levels of technology they can fit. There is not a one-size-fits-all approach to hearing healthcare. Each patient has unique needs, but yet we see this approach happening. These companies reimburse very little to providers advertising a “discount” to the patient, which perhaps may be a small discount when in reality these third-party “managers” are making sure that their company is well compensated when they are not having any direct contact with the patient. These companies require prior authorizations before ordering and repairing instruments creating longer wait times to the patient with more “hoops to jump through” for providers. If you have received hearing aids through one of these “benefit” plans and are dissatisfied, let your insurance company know. My concern is that this limits patients from positive hearing care experiences and, in some cases, they may give up using hearing aids all together. This can result in isolation from loved-ones and in atrophy of the hearing nerve. If you don’t voice your concerns, your insurance company will never know to change, and in my opinion, exceptional quality care will become increasingly difficult to come by.
Great question! The answer may vary depending on who you ask, but I will speak for my own office pricing. I hear people often discussing how difficult it is these days to receive remarkable and consistent customer care. I too have felt this way about some of my consumer experiences. People say, “No one wants to help you once you have purchased something. Manufacturers don’t want to repair or maintain their goods in this disposable society. They just want you to buy another one.” Well, we don’t feel that way at DigiHearingSolutions(TM). Included in the purchase price of your hearing instruments, there is a warranty plan, which will vary depending on the level of technology you choose based upon your listening lifestyle and your budget. This includes the initial fitting and all the adjustments and warranties for repair for a set time period. This does not include physical damage and any accessories that u may have been given as a part of the initial purchase. This is valuable because if something happens to your hearing aids, you need service right away. Some plans cover those services for one/ two/three years depending upon the product you have purchased from us. Cleaning the instruments and visual examinations of your ears are free for the lifetime with the Hearing Aids that you purchase from us. This keeps them in good working order. We like to perform this clean ad check every six months or sooner when needed. We love our patients, and we enjoy providing exceptional customer care because we truly value our patients meeting and maintaining their hearing goals. So, my answer is that hearing aids, in some cases, may cost less up front offering very little follow up care and support or you may consider investing in yourself with a little more up-front commitment in price and have good care when you need it.
If you are looking for reasons not to wear your hearing aids, you will find them, but the reality is that you are not doing yourself or your loved-ones any favors by doing that. When we fit hearing aids, we set them to where they are comfortable the first day and then gradually give your brain time to adjust all the new sounds that you are not used to hearing before gradually bumping up the settings again. This is a very important part of reintroducing input to the brain that has been missing. The brain has a remarkable ability to adapt to these changes over time, putting these new sounds into your everyday soundtrack of life. This is part of a positive follow up care experience. If you are only wearing hearing aids part-time, and they are set up to your targets, your brain will feel bombarded by the sound each time you wear the hearing aids and you will become easily fatigued resulting in the desire to remove them again. Then the pattern of dissatisfaction begins again. So we recommend going back through a gradual fitting approach. It is a much more pleasant process and your family and friends will appreciate your efforts.
Yes, we offer patient-focused care. We want to ensure that you have a positive experience, and we work hard to achieve that. First, we do extra testing that gives us a more real-world picture of the struggles that each patient is experiencing. Here we utilize Digital Hybrid Technology. Technology is great but it is also important to take the time to listen to the individual needs of each patient and set the hearing aids up to meet those needs. We take the time to do that gradually through a follow up process. People have very different lifestyles and communication demands. People also have very different hearing losses from one to another. Some people may frequently spend time in meetings or need to talk on the phone while in the car traveling for work, while others may live a quiet, slower-paced lifestyle. We take the time to learn and discover these needs and our patients benefit.
Well this is a difficult question. Sometimes it is helpful to have other family members who are noticing the problem assist by providing their observations to your loved-one. We cannot always motivate the unmotivated but you can share the isolation that you feel when you try to talk to your husband and he does not respond or asks you to repeat things routinely. You may have to point out how often you have to repeat what is being said to him. Many people have negative thoughts when they think of hearing aids and this may be his struggle too. It is usually related to an experience of the past, perhaps with a parent or grandparent. The truth is that hearing aids are so much better than they ever have been resulting in life-changing, positive experiences for those who are brave enough to seek help. Encourage him to stay engaged with those precious children, grandchildren or even great grandchildren. He will be glad that he did.
This is different for everyone. Some people keep their hearing aids for three years before replacing them and others replace them after seven years or more. The average life of a hearing aid is five years; however, in the last three years, improvements in digital technology have been so great that some people feel the need to replace them more frequently in order to keep up-to-date so as not to miss out on the important sounds of life. The prices have also decreased giving more people the opportunity to take advantage of good technology at a lower price.
As a hearing aid ages, the receivers and microphones have a tendency to break down from moisture, wax and dry skin. When the components break down, the hearing aid either won’t work properly or it may not work at all. Then it has to be repaired. When repaired, it makes the aid more vulnerable to future repairs because all the tiny connections wear out over time.
Frequently when people have a hearing loss, they have a reduced dynamic range of hearing. That means that the level at which that sound becomes audible, the level between comfortable and uncomfortable is a much smaller range than it is for someone with normal hearing. Generally, the longer you have hearing loss, the more sensitive you become to loud sounds, or the narrower your dynamic range of hearing is. This is called recruitment.
If you are in a situation that is too loud, you should mention it to the coordinators of the event. If they cannot make adjustments to the sound, you may need to turn down your hearing aids if possible, or take them out. Sometimes just taking one out is helpful. If the sound still bothers you, see your audiologist for an adjustment to make your hearing aids more comfortable in loud environments.
When a sound is loud enough to damage your hearing, it damages the cochlea in the inner ear. The cochlea is a bony, fluid filled sensory organ shaped like a snail shell that has tiny hair cells that represent the frequencies that we hear similarly to the keys on a piano. High pitches or high frequencies are represented on the basal end or the outermost area and are damaged first by noise-induced hearing loss because they are closer to the noise source. The low frequencies are represented on the apical end of the cochlea and are the last to be damaged by loud noise exposure.
Noise-induced hearing loss is preventable so it is important to protect your hearing. A good rule of thumb to use is the following: If you have to shout to hear someone standing an arm’s length away from you, you are probably being exposed to a noise that is too loud and you should be wearing hearing protection. Wearing hearing protection is sometimes a hassle, but we see people everyday that would gladly go through the hassle, just to have their hearing back.
Often the onset of hearing loss is gradual, making it difficult to notice small decreases over time. Usually family members notice hearing loss first, so listen to your family’s input.
Hearing loss often occurs in the higher frequencies first, so female voices and children’s voices are noticeably harder to hear, especially in background noise. So you feel like you still hear okay because you hear everything when it’s quiet. There are enough redundancies in speech for you to “fill in the blanks” temporarily when hearing loss first occurs. But the sooner you start wearing hearing aids, the better your quality of life becomes. If you deprive yourself of the benefits of hearing aids, then the hearing nerve will deteriorate more rapidly making it more difficult to process speech information. It is similar to a muscle that is not used that will atrophy. “If you don’t use it, you lose it!” The same is true for the hearing nerve. When it is not stimulated or deprived of sound for a number of years, it makes wearing hearing aids less beneficial later on. I see this often among those in their 80’s and 90’s who have finally decided to try hearing aids after living with hearing loss for 20 or more years.
Hearing loss also causes isolation from social situations often without the individual realizing it, which can lead to depression, or decreased cognitive and memory skills. So if you are having trouble or your loved ones think you are, it is important to have your hearing tested.
Sensorineural hearing loss is a permanent type of hearing loss with damage in the cochlea (the hearing mechanism in the inner ear) and/or the hearing nerve, so normal hearing can never be restored, even with a hearing aid. If it is a conductive hearing loss, it involves the efficiency of the sound as it is being transmitted (this occurs in the outer and middle ear), and as long as you can overcome the decrease in volume, you should be able to correct the loss to normal. However, conductive hearing losses can often be medically treated, in which case, hearing aids will not be necessary. A mixed hearing loss is a combination of conductive and sensorineural.
Hearing aids will help all of the above-mentioned hearing losses. The level of benefit will depend on the severity of the hearing loss, the speech understanding, the complexity of the listener’s environment and most importantly, the patient’s motivation.
I think it would be helpful to contact an audiologist who is not going to pressure your spouse into buying hearing aids. Just tell the audiologist or receptionist that he does not seem ready to try them and then he/she will know how to approach him with information.
Then have your Spouse and come in just to have a test. Let him know that it will simply tell him how he is hearing. If need be, contact his physician and ask him/her to support the recommendation.
All bases are then covered for him to have a hearing test and have his hearing loss explained to him in a way that gives him as much information as he can absorb. I recommend that you attend the appointment with him. Then the audiologist can give both of you information and literature to discuss and review later. As a result, he won’t feel pressured into making a decision. He can feel in control of making his own informed decision after giving it some thought. If that alone does not work, you can utilize other family members as a resource to help him understand the impact his hearing loss has on those around him. Sometimes children and grandchildren are the best motivation for taking that step into wearing hearing aids.