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What happened was two days ago, after talking to several deaf friends of mine and I felt that my audiologist was talking bullshitting me and decided to call medicaid and insurance and find out. After talking, they exactly said they would cover the cost of hearing aids with ANY brand name and also said that audiologist was not supposed to order two hearing aids without me a consent because she thought only one specific hearing aids called Siemens INTUIS that fits my ears needed. They also asked me what kind of hearing aids I wanted and I told them either that Phonak Naida V UltraPower or Phonak Veresata depend on my hearing loss result. Guess what? They said they would cover the cost of those if it benefits my both ears. The next day, I called audiologist to please email me for my audiogram result. Here is what she said,
I had doubt that Siemen INTUIS is considered a Super Power hearing aid and decided to research it. Guess what, it is and she is telling the truth and I said ok but what about Phonak Naida V ultra power hearing aid that you said medicaid wouldn't cover it but I called them and they said otherwise. Tomorrow, she will call my insurance and medicaid again and see what happens.
Profound sensorineural hearing loss in both ears.
Word recognition could not be established due to severity of hearing loss in both ears.
Speech awareness thresholds indicate profound hearing loss in each ear.
Normal middle ear function in both ears.
R ear - average is 108 dB
L ear - average is 102 dB
Recommendation: Siemens Super Power Behind-the-Ear hearing aids with DMs (Directional Microphones for noise reduction) and Telecoil in both ears. Full shell Precision ear molds will be used with this fitting. To add the name of the aids, which is Siemens INTUIS
I had doubt that Siemen INTUIS is considered a Super Power hearing aid and decided to research it. Guess what, it is and she is telling the truth and I said ok but what about Phonak Naida V ultra power hearing aid that you said medicaid wouldn't cover it but I called them and they said otherwise. Tomorrow, she will call my insurance and medicaid again and see what happens.