The reason Cochlear Implants are "so expensive"-surgery/hospital care and expensive mapping exercise by the audiologist plus the cost of the Implant itself.
How all of this is handled -cost wise-in a specific area of where one lives-how much/who picks up the costs has to be determined-specifically? It doesn't help if another state/province/country does something different.
Where I live-Toronto Ontario-OHIP( Ontario Health Insurance plan) picks up the entire costs for 3 years if approved by a designated Cochlear Implant section of specified hospital. There is 5 for the entire province. Changed in the future? I have mentioned before where I was " processed" at-Sunnybrook/Toronto that has implanted 850 people over an 18 year period. At present time that can implant only 70 a year. They have a "rejection rate" of 60% for one reason or other.
Fortunately I wasn't rejected.
Implanted Advanced Bionics-Harmony activated Aug/07
