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Empire Hearing Aids

NYS Empire Health Insurance includes a benefit for hearing aid coverage. Your Empire Insurance will cover $1,500 per ear every four years.

At Universal Audiology, this benefit will pay for a wide variety of hearing instruments. Payment from Empire Insurance coverage will pay for your hearing aids 100%. Many different manufacturers and styles of instruments are included in our program. A few different models include:

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Starkey Edge

Starkey Edge hearing aids put you in control of each day with powerful AI technology. Edge AI mimics the brain’s auditory cortex to help fix broken processing – hearing loss – classifying complex soundscapes, enhancing speech, and reducing noise in real-time. Edge AI technology helps you hear better in all situations and is reliable no matter what.

When paired with the My Starkey app, you can experience:

Life sounds better with an edge, experience new Starkey hearing aids today!

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Signia Silk

Discover one of the world’s smallest hearing aids, Signia Silk X. The Silk X is so discreet that no one can even see that you are wearing them. With a tailor-made fit, the Silk X is incredibly small and is designed to securely fit inside your ear, making it nearly invisible. Not only is the Silk X small, but it is incredibly comfortable. You won’t even notice it!

Signia Silk X uses an advanced technology platform to provide you with better hearing no matter your environment. No matter where life takes you, Silk X will provide your brain with the sounds it needs to process information, so you can feel confident joining the conversation. Featuring Bluetooth connectivity, you can stream phone calls, music, and other audio directly to Silk X. Experience seamless and discreet listening with Signia Silk X.

Additional Features of the Silk X Include:

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Oticon OPN™ S

The biggest challenge for people with hearing loss is understanding speech in noisy environments when multiple people are speaking at the same time. Oticon Opn S breaks the limits of what you thought possible with hearing aids.

Previous hearing aids dealt with noisy environments by focusing on one speaker, such as a person right in front of you, while suppressing all other sounds. The technology in Oticon Opn S gives you access to the relevant sounds around you, including speech, and puts you in charge of which sounds you want to focus on.

Proven to provide even better speech understanding with less effort in noisy environments than our previous generation of hearing aids, Opn S lets you take an active part in difficult listening situations – just like people with normal hearing.

What’s Included with
Empire Hearing Aids

At Universal Audiology, our Empire Insurance Hearing aid program includes payment in full for your hearing aids every four years. We include a 4-Year Repair Warranty with all hearing aids in The Empire Program. This means your hearing aids are insured against damage for the entire four years before they can be replaced again under your Empire Insurance.

Our office processes all claims to Empire Insurance for payment for the hearing aids. As always, all fittings at our office include a 45-day trial to ensure the proper fit and selection.

After an audiological evaluation at our office by a NYS licensed audiologist, we will explain the benefits of the different options available to you. Once you decide which hearing aid to test out, we will make all the necessary adjustments and fine-tuning changes to ensure a proper fit. As always, follow-up, checkups, and adjustments for the life of your instruments are included with your Empire Insurance coverage.

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