Audiology

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

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

This week, host Amyn Amlani interviews Antonio Esteban, a hearing professional in the Dominican Republic. He describes how his son’s hearing loss diagnosis inspired him and his wife to begin a foundation to help other families. Nearly two decades later, their foundation has helped change the lives of thousands of people with free hearing aids and hearing care services. Antonio

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 –

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

In this week’s episode, host Andrew Bellavia offers his thought on attending the Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA) 2022 AuDacity Conference as a non-audiologist. The conference was held from October 20-23, in Grapevine, Texas. In addition, we hear from practice owner, Dr. Yasmin Battat, SADA President Shannon Kim, and ADA Executive Director, Stephanie Czuhajewski, on what made this year’s

Biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies are increasingly investing in the development of therapeutics to treat hearing disorders. In just the past few months, the industry has witnessed the FDA approval of Pedmark, a new drug to treat ototoxicity associated with pediatric patients 1 month or older, as well as the acquisition of Akouos by Eli Lilly for nearly $500M dollars. In

Dr. Michael Valente returns to make that case that audiologists should consider introducing remote microphones and TV listening devices routinely for their hearing aid patients as add-on accessories. Regular use of remote mics and TV listening devices help address the biggest complaints by hearing aid users, even in spite of being well fitted with their devices – difficulty hearing in

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

BALLERUP, DENMARK — GN today announced that  it has been crowned CES® 2023 Innovation Awards Honoree for three of its leading technologies. ReSound OMNIA™/Beltone Achieve™, Custom made by ReSound™/Beltone Imagine Custom™ rechargeable hearing aids and Jabra Enhance Plus™ were each recognized by the CES Innovation Awards program. This year’s program received a record high  number of over 2,100 submissions. The announcement was