According to Medicare, the average cost of cochlear implant installation surgery in a hospital setting is $908. This cost includes doctors’ fees and facility costs and is covered by Medicare Part A.

China has significantly reduced the cost of cochlear implants through its first centralized procurement program, cutting prices from more than 200,000 yuan ($27,400) to around 50,000 yuan ...

The latest bulk procurement included some 11,000 cochlear implants purchased from five suppliers, as well as 258,000 peripheral vascular stents obtained from 18 suppliers, the National Healthcare ...

The cochlear implant consists of two parts: a small device that is placed during a relatively short surgery, and an externally worn speech processor. The cochlear implant converts acoustic sound to an ...

People sometimes describe the sounds as robotic. It can be difficult to detect emotion in speech through cochlear implants. Cost is a major consideration, since cochlear implants are expensive and ...