Hearing Health & Technology Matters

Nick Fitzgerald has served as HHTM’s Chief Marketing Officer for the past 3 years. He is the President and Owner of AuDSEO, a full service digital marketing agency. With over 15 years of digital marketing experience, Nick is a highly data-driven marketer, with expertise in search engine optimization, digital analytics and forensics, social media, digital advertising, and web development. He has been involved in the construction and optimization of nearly 1,000 web presences, including some of the largest Fortune 500 companies.
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Feb. 05, 2023

What to Do When You Hear Your Eye Move?

Hearing Health & Technology Matters
Imagine a patient reporting hearing their own eyeball move, feeling dizzy with loud sounds or quick head movements, experiencing aural fullness, autophony, and possibly some hearing loss. These symptoms form a perplexing cluster that can be frustrating for both the affected individual and their healthcare provider. We take a closer look at the condition known as Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome
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Dec. 15, 2022

HearUSA to Carry Sony’s Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids at Centers Nationwide in 2023

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PALM BEACH GARDENS, FLORIDA — Responding to the Food and Drug Administration’s recent approval of over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids, today HearUSA announced that it will offer Sony’s new over-the-counter hearing aids. The first two models – the Sony CRE-C10 and Sony CRE-E10 – will be available for clients to purchase early next year in all HearUSA centers and online. According
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Dec. 12, 2022

NationsBenefits and Eargo Announce Partnership to Offer OTC Hearing Aids

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FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA — NationsBenefits®, a leading provider of supplemental benefits, flex cards, and member engagement solutions for health plans, and Eargo, Inc. (Nasdaq: EAR), a medical device company on a mission to improve the quality of life for people with hearing loss, today announced a strategic partnership. The partnership will allow health plan members served by NationsBenefits to use
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Dec. 01, 2022

WIDEX MOMENT™ App Named CES 2023 Innovation Awards Honoree 

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HAUPPAUGE, NEW YORK — Widex today announced that it has been named a CES® 2023 Innovation Awards Honoree* for the company’s Widex Moment smartphone app (iOS and Android), which is the perfect hearing aid companion to Widex Moment and the new Widex Moment Sheer. All honorees and award winners were revealed during CES Unveiled New York on November 16th –
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Dec. 01, 2022

Patient Square Capital Becomes Majority Owner of Eargo Inc, Following Rights Offering

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SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA — Eargo, Inc. (Nasdaq: EAR) announced this week that Patient Square Capital has become the majority equity owner of the company. Patient Square’s equity ownership of Eargo resulted from the conversion of Patient Square’s senior secured convertible notes per its previously announced investment in June 2022 and following the recent closing of Eargo’s successful rights offering of common
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Dec. 01, 2022

Widex MySound Wins 2022 Hearing Technology Innovator Award

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HAUPPAUGE, NEW YORK — Widex Inc. announced that Widex MySound, a portfolio of AI features that enable intelligent customization of Widex MOMENT hearing aids, has been recognized as a winner in the third annual Hearing Technology Innovator Awards. Recipients were honored for their technological innovation and achievement across 30 product categories.  Widex MySound was selected in the Assistive Technology & Software:
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Nov. 28, 2022

High-Intensity Acoustic Devices as Weapons: A look at the Legalities

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By Fred Cohen It began innocently enough. A Pittsburgh newspaper announces a settlement with a professor who suffered hearing loss in September 2009 during the Group of 20 economic summit. The professor was in Pittsburgh studying the possible impact of protests on monetary policy and was about 100 feet away from a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) when it was
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Nov. 24, 2022

AARP Partners with UnitedHealthcare to Offer Discounted Hearing Aids to its Members

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MINNETONKA, MINNESOTA — UnitedHealthcare is now administering AARP Hearing Solutions, which the company says will help “make it easier and more affordable for millions of Americans to purchase prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids”.   Under the new relationship, AARP members can now purchase prescription hearing aids through UnitedHealthcare Hearing starting as low as $699 per hearing aid. This price is significantly
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Nov. 22, 2022

Starkey’s Evolv AI Wins Gold Globee Award in the 2022 Business Excellence Awards 

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EDEN PRAIRIE, MINNESOTA – Starkey has announced that its Evolv AI, has been named a Gold Globee Award winner in the Health and Pharmaceuticals Product category of the 2022 Business Excellence Awards. This annual international awards program recognizes outstanding products that set industry benchmarks in excellence.   “By believing in better innovation and technology, we’ve paved the way for cutting-edge products
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Nov. 17, 2022

CMS to Allow Direct Access to Audiologists for Medicare Beneficiaries in 2023 for Hearing Exams

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the CY 2023 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized an exception to the physician order requirement for certain diagnostic testing services to broaden patient access to services furnished by audiologists.  The finalized policy will allow beneficiaries direct access (without an order from a physician or NPP) to