These are the rules we follow when we write a page. How we read data files and count what is in them is on our methodology page, and we do not repeat it here.
Primary sources first
We start with the source that makes the rule or holds the data: a federal agency, a state legislature, a plan filing or an FDA record. A company's own page is used to describe that company or its program, and we say so when we use it.
Brand prices
A brand price appears in a sentence of the text, with the brand's name, a link to the brand's page and the date we read it. We do not compile brand prices into a table unless the brand's terms allow it or the brand has agreed in writing.
Each price carries an expiry date 30 days after we read it. A check warns us a week ahead, so we can read the price again or take it off the page. Prices change, so check the brand's page before you buy. A brand can ask us to remove its price or the product details we quote from it.
What we leave out
- Diagnosis, symptoms and causes of hearing loss.
- Treatments, and whether a device or treatment works.
- Surgery and recovery.
- Technical troubleshooting.
- Reviews without first-hand evidence. A comparison needs first-hand evidence or a method we publish, and no one can pay for a place in it.
No clinical reviewer
No audiologist, physician or other clinician reviews our pages, and we do not claim otherwise. Our pages are cost and coverage research written by a data and research team. Talk to a clinician about your hearing.
How we use AI
We use AI tools to help with research and drafting. Each figure is then checked against its source. Before a page is published, it must also pass a separate review by an AI judge, which reads the page and its sources under written rules. This review does not replace a clinical review, and we do not present it as one.
Corrections
If you think a figure or a statement is wrong, write to contact@hearworth.com with the page and, if you have one, the source. We check it against the source. If we were wrong, we correct it everywhere it appears: the text, the tables and the page data.
Cost and coverage research, not medical advice.