The Nation's Voice for People with Hearing Loss
In October 2011 United Healthcare® the largest health insurance company with ten million subscribers introduced a direct online hearing health service to consumers. Through its subsidiary hi HealthInnovations, they offer their Medicare Advantage plan subscribers a hearing health benefit – hearing aids free or at very low co-payment.
Hearing Loss Association of America along with nine other organizations representing people with hearing loss, parents of children with hearing loss, hearing health professionals and hearing aid manufacturers sponsored a briefing in honor of the Congressional Hearing Health Caucus (CHHC) on February 8, 2012. The CHHC has been reinvigorated this year by Representatives Tom Latham, R-IA, and Carolyn McCarthy, D-NY. The briefing attracted a record 125 Congressional staffers and members of hearing health organizations to examine “how the Military and Veterans Administration are handling the surge in hearing loss and tinnitus cases related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) Conventions are a time to honor our organizations and members with well-deserved awards. HLAA affiliates find unique and special ways to serve member needs as they reach out and make an impact. National awards acknowledge these achievements and contributions.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
February 6, 2012
CONTACT:
Nancy Macklin
Director of Events and Marketing
nmacklin@hearingloss.org
Hearing Loss Association of America and 17 other national and local organizations sent a strong message to Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius urging inclusion of hearing health care under the Affordable Care Act.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
January 30, 2012
CONTACT:
Nancy Macklin
Director of Events and Marketing
nmacklin@hearingloss.org
Hearing Loss Association of America (“HLAA”) and the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Telecommunications Access (“RERC-TA”) along with the Association of Late-Deafened Adults, Inc. (ALDA) Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc. (TDI), National Association of the Deaf (NAD), Deaf and Hard of Hearing Consumer Advocacy Network (DHHCAN), and Hands & Voices filed comments with the FCC January 12, 2012 regarding the standards for testing mobile devices for hearing aid compatibility.
Finding a Hearing Aid Compatible (HAC) mobile phone has always posed a problem for people who wear hearing aids. About a year ago, between January 28 and February 7, 2011, HLAA conducted an online survey to gather consumer experience with HAC mobile phones. We were surprised at the results. We found widespread discontent with both the process of searching for HAC handsets and we found a surprising number of people who ended up settling for phones that didn’t really work with their hearing aids.
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The 2nd International Hearing Loop Conference was co‐hosted by the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) and the American Academy of Audiology (Academy) in Crystal City, Virginia, from June 18 through June 20, 2011.
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