Medicare will not pay for hearing aids.
But will they pay for an audiologist if your doctor sends you there.
That is, can you set it up so that everything is paid for except the hearing aide?
Would just going to Costco yield a similar result?
I’m going to tell this is I understand it in my experience.
Medicare will pay for you to see an ENT. But having your ENT send you to an audiologist will not get the audiologist covered. It didn’t for me. I know of a guy who gets his covered under VA because he’s on disability. Which is not the same thing of course.
The ENT told me that the audiologist at Sam’s and Costco were as good as anywhere else and you would pay a lot less for the hearing aids. Which doesn’t make them cheap. It does make them less expensive. The cost of the hearing aids will vary according to how bad your hearing is. Because you can get one with fewer adjustable frequencies if your hearing isn’t as bad. The only suggestion I can make would be to go to Sam’s and or Costco get a hearing test and see what they tell you in terms of recommendation and cost. If you don’t like it go somewhere else. The hearing tests are free and they’re pretty thorough.
The hearing aid chains, the ones that are constantly sending you flyers in the mail, have a serious reputation for the Hard Sell. I personally would not go near any of them.