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My Aetna Medicare Advantage Plan offers a $2,500 benefit for hearing aids, but only through NationsHearing (rebranded NationsBenefits). I get a skeezy vibe from this Plantation, Florida company. Anyway, I read this https://ir.eargo.com/news-releases/news-release-details/eargo-and-nationsbenefits-announce-strategic-partnership25
So I emailed both Aetna and NationsHearing to ask this: If I buy Eargo hearing aids at Best Buy, can I send the receipt to Aetna and get my money back? Aetna avoided my question. A big wig at Nations emailed me back and said Aetna hasn’t decided yet. My guess is that Aetna Advantage plans could possibly be out big dollars if they paid for everyone’s Eargo. Your thoughts?

EarGo aids have little advantage over the many “aids” on E Bay and elsewhere. They have no streaming capabilities and very little adjustability features. For what they offer, they are QUITE expensive.

DO NOT BUY EARGO!! I struggled for a year to try and optimize then with their help. Finally had another hearing test, and the doctor(s), said that eargo’s are not suitable for moderate to severe hearing loss which I had and to which EARGO said no problem!! Now I’m stuck with the rest of the finance bill as they will refund NOTHING after 45 days. UGH

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You don’t have an in your profile so its not clear if Eargo’s would be suitable for you but that is not my experience. I am very happy with my Eargo 7’s. They are working very well for me for family interactions, noisy restaurants, outside and phone/video calls.

Eargo will set up the devices using either their own tests or if you have Audiograms from other tests. I have gone back and forth between the Eargo hearing test results, results from the Apple hearing tests and tests done at Costco. All sound pretty good but have I settled on the audiogram from Costco.

Have you tried asking Eargo to set up your Eargo’s based on your latest test result?

Yes when I talked to an Audiologist she was very dismissive of the Eargos but she was trying to sell me $8000 Oticon aids!

I tried Jabra Pro 20’s at Costco and don’t think they sounded any better than than the Eargo’s - but it was a short 1-hour test in Costco.

Good luck!

In reply to @darthvagrant

@darthvagrant said:

EarGo aids have little advantage over the many OTC “aids” on E Bay and elsewhere. They have no streaming capabilities and very little adjustability features. For what they offer, they are QUITE expensive.

They have various Sound Match programs (normal, restaurant, TV, music etc) and ability to set noise filters to emphasize speech, reduce noise for comfort or automatically adjust.

Yes they don’t support streaming - but that is actually the point. They are small and in the ear and invisible so have no Bluetooth capability. I prefer that and they work great for phone/video calls (just as they would if I didn’t need hearing aids) as I just use the device audio.

If I (occasionally) need devices for streaming/hands free I use my Airpod Pro 2’s (with Hearing assistance set) - just as I would if I didn’t need hearing aids.

(for the price - yes they are expensive but I got $1000 off the Eargo 7’s in their Black Friday sale and am pretty happy. They were still $1999 so not cheap!)

@Ratfancy said:

My Aetna Medicare Advantage Plan offers a $2,500 benefit for hearing aids, but only through NationsHearing (rebranded NationsBenefits). I get a skeezy vibe from this Plantation, Florida company. Anyway, I read this https://ir.eargo.com/news-releases/news-release-details/eargo-and-nationsbenefits-announce-strategic-partnership
So I emailed both Aetna and NationsHearing to ask this: If I buy Eargo OTC hearing aids at Best Buy, can I send the receipt to Aetna and get my money back? Aetna avoided my question. A big wig at Nations emailed me back and said Aetna hasn’t decided yet. My guess is that Aetna Advantage plans could possibly be out big dollars if they paid for everyone’s Eargo. Your thoughts?

I know this is old but I have standard Aetna coverage - unfortunately I need a prescription from a qualified Audiologist and the hearing aids to be fitted to that prescription to get use my $2000 benefit for hearing aids. Neither Eargo’s or Costco hearing aids qualify unfortunately. However with Audiologist supplied hearing aids costing $7000-8000 I went with Eargos at $2000 (which I am very happy with) and may in the future go with Costco Hearing aids in $1500 range.

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