About 3 in every 1,000 babies is born with hearing loss. But many insurance plans don't cover hearing aids, putting the high costs on the parents.
But Vivienne is among the roughly 3 in every 1,000 children the National Institutes of Health says are born with hearing loss. Without her hearing aids, the world sounds like a cell phone call cutting in and out.
"Our ENT and audiologist wrote letters to the insurance company and still they continued to deny it and listed it as cosmetic," Vivenne's mother Danielle Ober said. "There's a large body of research that has shown an association between untreated hearing loss and social isolation, loneliness, depression in children and adults," McNamara told Scripps News."Access to hearing is very critical for a child's development."
America's Health Insurance Plans is the national association that represents nearly 1,300 companies that offer health insurance. Scripps News reached out but has not heard back on whether AHIP members consider hearing aids"cosmetic." The ability to hear is key in the way a child speaks, understands and takes in the world. Dr.
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