{"id":20091,"date":"2022-08-17T11:04:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T15:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20091"},"modified":"2022-08-17T11:04:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T15:04:44","slug":"millions-of-americans-will-soon-be-able-to-buy-hearing-aids-without-a-prescription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20091","title":{"rendered":"Millions of Americans will soon be able to buy hearing aids without a prescription"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Rachel Treisman for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adults with perceived mild to moderate hearing impairment will be able to buy hearing aids directly from stores, pharmacies and online retailers \u2014 no prescription or doctor&#8217;s appointment required \u2014 as soon as mid-October.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/08\/16\/1117741695\/over-the-counter-hearing-aids\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/08\/16\/1117741695\/over-the-counter-hearing-aids\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"72\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rachel Treisman for NPR) Adults with perceived mild to moderate hearing impairment will be able to buy hearing aids<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fda","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20094,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20091\/revisions\/20094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}