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Meeting the needs of our patients has always been a top priority and we understand that spreading out the cost of hearing aids may make your purchase more affordable. In less than 5 minutes, you could be approved for our 0% interest 6 month payment plan.
Flexible Payment Plans
Hearing Aid Healthcare is pleased to offer a variety of payment plans with no up front costs, no annual fees, and no pre-payment penalties. So you can place your order today and conveniently pay with low monthly payments.
0% Interest Payment Plan
With this option, there are no interest charges if you pay your balance in full within 6 months. * Monthly payments can be as low as 3% of your balance.
Extended Payment Plan
This option offers the lowest monthly payment available and is designed for patients who prefer more time to pay. Interest rates on this plan are 11.9% and terms can be up to 48 months.
| Total Cost |
48 Months |
| $1000 |
$26 |
| $2000 |
$53 |
| $3000 |
$79 |
| $4000 |
$105 |
| $5000 |
$131 |
The examples presented are based on a 11.9% APR, fixed interest. There is a $1,000 plan minimum. Credit review and approval are necessary.
*Some higher and digital hearing aid models qualify for 0% interest for 12 months.
Improving your hearing and adding to your quality of life is hard to put a price tag on. While it might seem odd, it’s not really what’s inside the piece of plastic that you’re paying for – it’s how well the hearing instrument improves your quality of life. The real value is what it’s worth to be able to fully engage in your relationships, work and the activities you enjoy.
You may also want to think about what you value most in terms of a hearing instruments features and benefits. How important is vanity? How important is the latest technology? The equation of price will depend somewhat on your priorities – and it’s different for everyone.
Hearing instruments generally run from several hundred to a few thousand dollars, and pricing varies between hearing professionals. Typically, costs reflect the amount of research and development that has gone into the product as well as quality of the components, with the smallest, most technologically advanced instruments at the higher end of the pricing spectrum. However, you can also get hearing instruments that provide a good benefit in a modest price range.
Pricing includes the services of your hearing professional, such as the testing, making of the earmold impression, fitting of the instrument and follow-up care and service. In addition, most hearing instruments come with a warranty. Costs also reflect the considerable overhead, which is created by a modern highly technical facility. Also, this type of operation requires educated, skilled and highly trained licensed professionals to answer the most technical of questions.
As when making any decision of considerable importance, do some research and buy from a reputable source. Get a referral from your doctor or a friend who is satisfied with their experience.
Hearing instrument technology has come a long way in the last few years, thanks to computer microchip and digital circuitry. Hear are some of the latest innovations.
Digital Technology
Why does music from a cd sound more crisp, clear, and distortion-free than music from a record or tape? The answer, at least in part, is the difference between analog and digital processing.
Digital hearing instruments have one or more microchip processors inside them that convert analog sound waves into the zeros and ones of computer language. Sound in this format can be processed more quickly and more efficiently than analog sound waves; In fact, incoming sounds are sampled at a rate of a million or more times per second. The digital instrument’s circuitry analyzes these sound levels and frequencies, manipulating them to provide a more efficient match to an individual’s hearing profile.
For example, a person with hearing loss may have trouble hearing soft sounds, but when some sounds are amplified even a small amount, they become uncomfortably loud. Hearing instruments with digital compression circuitry are able to stratify incoming sounds, detect those that need amplification from those that don’t and process the sound accordingly.
Programmable Technology
Digitally programmable hearing instruments, which are different from fully digital instruments in that they’re not equipped to process all incoming sound digitally, offer the very useful benefit of being able to sculpt sound to fit a particular individual’s unique hearing profile, and can be reprogrammed if there are changes in hearing loss. Programmable instruments can be set up with multiple channels, enabling you to preset and store several different programs, each sculpted to a particular set of sound environments. You can then select the appropriate program using a button or remote control unit; normal conversation, concert hall, office, or telephone, for example.
Feedback Reduction Technology
Feedback has long been a problem for hearing instrument wearers. Now we know a lot more about feedback, and have developed ways to deal with it. Feedback happens when amplified sound waves escape back out through the ear canal and are then re-amplified by the hearing instrument-resulting in the high-pitched squeals that set your teeth on edge. Smaller, in-the-canal styles of hearing aids place components closer to the eardrum, preventing sound waves from escaping, thereby reducing, and often eliminating, feedback. Some new instruments are also able to detect these sounds before they become audible and cancel them out, greatly reducing this frustrating problem.
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