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Signia Expert Series: Hearing Loss and Health Care Experience

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1.  According to the Institute of Medicine report, patient-provider communication is a part of patient-centered care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient…. Needs Preferences, needs, and values Language and needs Medical values

2.  Which of the following is a mediator that could link hearing and health care utilization? Poor treatment understanding Bad attitude Lower intelligence Lack of proper care

3.  Hearing loss was associated with how much more in health care spending in a 10-year period per the optum labs data analysis? $3,852 $9,657 $22,434 $233,434

4.  Medicare beneficiaries who wore hearing aids and saw a hearing service provider spent how much less on average in health care spending compared to Medicare beneficiaries who wore hearing aids and did not see a hearing service provider in a given year? $3,999 $3,852 $2,513 $200,513

5.  Which of the following is not key to implementing sustainable practices to address hearing loss? Ensure direct implications for unit staff Place of onus of burden on the health care system not the patient Create buy-in Create incentives for patients to buy hearing aids