{"id":13432,"date":"2022-07-30T14:22:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T14:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ziphearing.com\/blog\/?p=13432"},"modified":"2022-10-03T17:07:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T17:07:37","slug":"hearing-health-news-july-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ziphearing.com\/blog\/hearing-health-news-july-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing Health News – July ’22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hearing aids are getting more expensive<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Consumer Price Index is up over 8.6 percent<\/a> over the last 12 months, and unfortunately for those in the market for hearing aids, hearing aid prices are keeping pace with that figure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result of rising costs of goods and supply chain issues, nearly all of the major hearing aid manufacturers have increased their prices to retailers (hearing care providers) by anywhere from 5-10%+ since the pandemic began. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The majority of hearing care providers are in turn passing those costs onto their customers\u2014amounting to hundreds of dollars of extra costs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At ZipHearing, we are bucking the trend, and instead of raising prices, have cut our prices by 4% in the last 12 months and hope to continue to be able to do so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

myPhonak app gets much needed updates along with some criticism<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the first week of July, Phonak updated their myPhonak app<\/a>, which is the app that is compatible with nearly all Phonak hearing aids from the last 5 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For many people, this app updated automatically. Others will have to manually update it on their phone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve been inundated with calls related to this update, as has Phonak, even updating their phone system to play a message that hold times may be longer than usual \u2018due to the popularity of the new myPhonak app.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n