Hearing loss has become one of America’s most widespread health conditions — and it spans all age groups. Health insurance carriers, employers, unions and workers’ compensation programs have all become involved in the solution by offering some form of a hearing healthcare benefit to their members or employees. This white paper dives into the opportunity, the various deployment strategies and criteria for evaluating potential hearing healthcare partners. Specific discussion points include:

• The story behind the emergence of hearing healthcare benefits
• Two primary benefit structures: funded plan or discount program
• Four substantial advantages to be realized by offering a hearing healthcare benefit
• Seven common deployment strategies used by various sponsoring organizations
• Fourteen criteria for assessing hearing healthcare partners and their programs