Real-world hearing aid prices, insurance coverage, Medicare, and ways to save.

“Does Aetna cover hearing aids?” is one of the most searched insurance questions in hearing care, and the honest answer is: it depends on your plan. Aetna is a huge insurer with thousands of different employer and individual plans, and hearing aid coverage varies from generous to nonexistent across them. Here is how to figure…

Hearing aids are expensive, and the tax code offers a small consolation: in most cases, you can deduct their cost as a medical expense. It will not make a $4,000 pair free, but for many buyers the deduction shaves hundreds off the real cost. The rules are simpler than they look. Here is how they…

Shopping for hearing aids can feel like pricing a car with the windows blacked out. One clinic quotes $5,800, an online ad promises “$99 hearing aids,” and a friend swears she paid $1,400 at Costco. Who is right? Honestly, all of them, because hearing aid prices span an enormous range depending on what you buy…

When hearing aid prices get quoted, they are almost always quoted per pair. That single convention causes a surprising amount of confusion: buyers compare a $2,400 “per device” online price against a $4,800 “per pair” clinic price and think the clinic is doubling the price, when the two numbers may describe nearly the same thing.…