Use of Hearing Services in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage

Sarah Y Bessen; Emmanuel E Garcia Morales; Frank R Lin; Nicholas S Reed

doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3619

Use of Hearing Services in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage

JAMA Health Forum. 2024 Oct 4;5(10):e243619. doi: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3619.

Authors

Sarah Y Bessen^{1

2}, Emmanuel E Garcia Morales^{1

3}, Frank R Lin^{1

2}, Nicholas S Reed^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Optimal Aging Institute, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York.

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Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study compares use of hearing evaluations and hearing aids among Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare beneficiaries with hearing loss.