You may have heard about our new Nucleus® Profile™ Plus Series Cochlear Implant’s thin design, unrivaled reliability and easier access to MRI¹…but let’s get technical! How does the Profile Plus Implant’s design work? Based upon the design of our Profile Series, the Profile Plus offers a range of features that may be beneficial to your […]
A Reimbursement Support Success Story
By Nicole Craig, Senior Manager of Managed Care and Market Access, Cochlear Americas At Cochlear, we are committed to ensuring patient access to implantable hearing solutions, extending from the earliest days of candidacy through a lifetime of service and support for our recipients. Last month we posted information on best practices for obtaining commercial coverage […]
Surgical Outcomes of CI532 Clinical Study: Does electrode placement impact hearing performance?
In the spring of this year, sixty-five otology and audiology professionals came together for Cochlear NEXT – a program focused on learning and discussion regarding Cochlear’s CI532 Clinical Study and the respective implications of this emerging and impactful data. The following information reviews the primary talking points and output from the day’s first topic. Surgical […]
Upcoming Obsolescence
The Cochlear™ Baha® 4 Sound Processor will become obsolete on March 31, 2019 in both the US and Canada. The Cochlear™ Nucleus® 5 Sound Processor will become obsolete on March 31, 2019 in the US and on June 30, 2019 in Canada. This means that beginning on the obsolescence dates, Cochlear will no longer sell […]
CI532: The Perimodiolar Advantage
By guest author: Wade Colburn Cochlear introduced our first perimodiolar electrode array in 2000. Perimodiolar arrays reduce the distance to the modiolus to improve performance1,2 and allow for more focused stimulation3,4. In a study conducted at Washington University by Holden et al5, they showed a correlation between the position of the electrode with […]
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