About one out of ten kids who have private insurance have hearing aids included in benefits. NBC’s 7’s Danny Freeman has more on a push to include child hearing aids in insurance coverage.
SACRAMENTO – Legislation to expand insurance coverage for children’s hearing aids passed unanimously out of the Assembly Health Committee on Tuesday evening. The measure, introduced by Assemblymember Richard Bloom (D – Santa Monica), would make California the 24th...
The Santa Monica Daily Press covered the initiative to expand hearing aid coverage to kids in California: The state assemblymember representing Santa Monica is introducing a bill to require California health insurers to cover hearing aids for children. Richard Bloom,...
K-12 Daily reported on the new initiative to expand access to hearing aids for children. New bipartisan legislation introduced Tuesday would require health insurance plans to cover hearing aids for children. Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica and lead author of...
Assemblymember Bloom & Advocates Announce Introduction of Hearing Aid Insurance Bill Measure Seeks to Ensure Health Insurance Coverage for Pediatric Hearing Aids SACRAMENTO – Today, Assemblymember Bloom (D – Santa Monica) announced the introduction of legislation...
This ten year old lets us know in her own words how important her hearing aid is to her. She is deaf in one ear and needs a hearing aid in the other to access spoken language. In addition, her mother and sister also use hearing aids. That’s 5 hearing aids for...
Let California Kids Hear (LCKH) announces initiative and launches website in an effort to garner support for upcoming legislation to mandate health plans cover pediatric hearing aids. Only one in ten kids have hearing aids covered by their private health plan in...
The legislation requires insurers to cover the cost of hearing aids In August, Illinois Governor, Bruce Rauner, signed a bill into law that requires health insurers to cover the cost of replacing hearing aids for deaf or hard of hearing children every 36 months. The...
New study shows that providing hearing amplification early on helps children’s listening and spoken language skills Approximately, one to two of every 1,000 newborns are deaf or hard of hearing. The American Academy of Pediatrics’ Early Hearing Detection and...
