Insurance & Financing

Nearly all insurances cover baseline hearing tests with no minimum age requirement. Other diagnostic tests are typically covered as well, including balance or dizziness tests or more extensive hearing testing, if necessary. There are also several different ways that insurance plans support your hearing health. It all depends on your insurance program and your audiologist will review your benefit with you if you have one.

A hearing aid benefit is money paid by the insurance company to pay all or part of the cost of any hearing aid the patient chooses. It is similar to how insurance companies cover the costs of eyeglasses. A hearing aid discount program gives the patient access to hearing aids at a reduced price that the patient pays for entirely. The insurance company pays nothing. These discount programs often have a very list of locations that participate, a limited selection of available hearing aids, and limited services included.

Unfortunately, some people think that access to discounted hearing aids is the same as an insurance benefit. It’s not. Since the insurance company does not contribute to the cost of the hearing aids, the patient pays the whole bill. Additionally, many of these plans limit where patients can go to get their hearing aids and their choices in hearing aid model and performance is limited to what was chosen as part of the discount program. The services you can expect like prompt appointments for problems, loaner devices when needed, and even the recommended best practice for how hearing aids are programmed are not features of these discount programs. When you come to HES, we have the ability to offer you the absolute best hearing aid treatment plan for your specific needs and budge, without limitations from an outside party. There is no need for a “discount program” when you come to HES. As a nonprofit practice we offer solutions for every budget.