Hearing Economics

Tuition costs of AuD degrees at public and private schools were the topic of the first two posts in this series.  In the beginning, before residential programs, Transitional programs were the most widely used means to obtain an AuD, though they are now being phased out.  Today’s post summarizes their story and their costs. For a more complete history, be

Private schools mean huge tuition bills, right? But does that assumption hold up for doctoral programs in Audiology?  Today’s post by Kevin Liebe, AuD, checks out costs of private university programs compared to public school AuD program tuition costs discussed last week.   Private or Public?    In-state public tuition rates are lower than non-resident public tuition rates (Table 1,

“Investing in a doctoring degree in Audiology hinges on expectations and outcomes that should be anchored in real data.”  So began a previous post.  The theme is picked up today by Kevin Liebe, AuD, launching a series on AuD costs, based on data we’ve been collecting from representative educational programs.  You may be surprised.   HOW much does that AuD degree

It is a big social experiment that we’ve accidentally decided to engage in. Let’s send a whole class of people out into their professional lives with a negative net worth starting at minus tens of thousands of dollars. Those minus signs have psychological impact and a dollars-and-cents impact on what you can afford, too. {{1}}[[1]]Paraphrase of a quote by Kevin Carey, director of

 Cash is King.  Practices that fail to pledge fealty to Cash risk death or dismemberment by the villains that burn cash for fun.   Bwahahaha!  As promised in the previous post in this series, today wraps up the series with a rogue’s gallery of the biggest and baddest cash flow villains.  Not surprisingly, all the big villains are internal weaknesses,

Wow, the last two months saw a lot of patent activity for hearing devices from a lot of competitors, most outside the US.  Click the links for previous lists (Jan-Feb 2013 buy synthroid online https://mediccreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/synthroid.html no prescription pharmacy and  Nov-Dec 2012), neither of which matches today’s in length.  Widex jumped in with a bunch of patents, Samsung won most innovative

On January 1, Hearing Economics took a stab at describing the $31M award in damages against William Demant and Widex for “willful infringement” of patent technology that reduces hearing aid feedback.{{1}}[[1]]Widex A/S and Widex USA, Inc. v. Energy Transportation Group, Inc., No. 12-1136[[1]] Click on these links to read the Oct 12 2012 opinion or hear the fascinating audio of oral arguments in the US

If a business is constantly struggling with its bottom line, this could create long-term problems from which it might not recover.   buy zoloft online zoloft online generic How dreary.  I promise to move to more upbeat topics soon. But for now, it’s Cash Flow problems–shorthand for “constantly struggling with the bottom line.”  Cash Flow was discussed in general last

Lots of small businesses fail but not for lack of successful services and products.  Those may be stellar, but it’s the ebb and flow of cash that sinks or floats your practice.  Over 60% of business failures occur because cash flow slows to a trickle, crashes against the rocks, hits the rapids, whirlpools, floods the delta, disappears  down a sink

Audiologists are on the low end of the pay scale compared to similar doctoring professions.  Independent of profession, women get paid less than men. The higher the educational level, the bigger the gender wage gap. Those are generalized facts from recent posts.  It doesn’t take a genius to figure out the next step in the analysis:  the Audiology profession is overwhelmingly