THERE SEEMS TO BE A LOT OF DIFFERENT OPTIONS AS FAR AS SIZE AND TECHNOLOGY GO, SO WHERE DOES COST FIGURE INTO ALL OF THIS?
A. Well, there are several factors that affect the cost of a hearing aid. First, is the size of the hearing aid itself; as we mentioned before, as the shell of the hearing aid gets smaller, the price gets more expensive. This is because more research has gone into making hearing aids and their components smaller. The second factor is the type of technology. Obviously, as you go up in technology; you also go up in price. This also has to do with the cost of research but in this case the research is for finding options to help the user in different listening situations and perfecting those options, such as directional microphones. In addition to this is the cost of the time your audiologist provides programming, fitting, and adjusting the hearing aids for you. Keep in mind, hearing aids are not like glasses; we don’t just program them once, put them on you and send you on your way. The information we gather from the audiological examination is minimal in the fitting process. Once the ini
