VA Hearing Aid Brands: Suppliers Named in the VA Procurement Report

Which manufacturers are named in the official VA report?

The source is a spreadsheet published by the Department of Veterans Affairs and its Denver Logistics Service: the hearing aid procurement distribution report for fiscal year 2026, covering October 2025 through September 2026. Its supplier column carries five labels, printed here exactly as the VA spells them:

• GN Resound
• Oticon
• Sonova
• Starkey
• WS Audiology

The same five names recur in each of the six hearing aid categories this page shows.

Supplier labels, not retail brands

We use the supplier column only, as filed. This page does not translate a supplier into the retail brands or models it sells, and does not assume that every product line a company owns was bought by the VA. Posts from manufacturers saying a model is now on the VA contract are their own announcements; this report neither confirms nor contradicts a given model.

Which hearing-aid styles appear in the VA procurement categories?

The report's workbook opens on a summary sheet, then gives one worksheet per group or category. Groups 1 to 3 are the three main styles: custom and behind-the-ear aids have four categories each (non-rechargeable, rechargeable, multiple processors, SCIF), and receiver-in-canal aids a fifth, advanced receivers. Group 7 covers CROS aids, Group 8 compatible devices, and Groups 4, 6 and 9 accessories such as wireless systems, remote controls and chargers. This page shows six of them, the two power-source categories of each main style. The labels below follow the worksheet titles:

The style names describe where the device sits: made to the shape of the ear, worn behind it, or with the receiver placed in the ear canal. The second word of each label answers a frequent question, whether the VA buys rechargeable aids: each of the three styles has a rechargeable category with reported units.

Other hearing-aid categories (multi-processor, SCIF, advanced receivers, CROS) and accessories are not shown; the report has no implant data.

What do the published VA unit counts measure?

Each supplier row ends with a Number Sold total for the fiscal year. The table above lists the published totals for all six categories. A few rows show how much one supplier's figure moves from one category to the next:

• Sonova: 184,130 units in RIC rechargeable, 8,892 in RIC non-rechargeable.
• Starkey: 54,898 units in custom rechargeable, 5,158 in custom non-rechargeable.
• WS Audiology: 33,326 units in RIC rechargeable, 39 in BTE non-rechargeable.
• GN Resound: 3,335 units in BTE rechargeable, 500 in BTE non-rechargeable.

How to read one row

In the VA worksheet, each supplier row carries one cell per month, from October 2025 to September 2026, then a TOTAL cell. The table on this page keeps only that TOTAL, with the supplier label and the category label copied from the same worksheet. A month marked N/A stays N/A in the source; we do not fill it in or average it.

What the totals are not

• Not people. A count is of units, not of veterans fitted.
• Not prices. Unit counts are not dollars; the report's Sales and Average Cost rows are not shown here, and no count says what an aid costs a veteran.
• Not a quality score or a ranking. A larger count says nothing about sound, fit or durability.
• Not today's shelf. The totals describe a closed fiscal year, not what a VA clinic holds now.

Two rules we keep

The report's key warns that when a supplier offers the same item in more than one category, its numbers are captured in only one of them. A low count in one category can reflect where an item was filed, so this page never adds categories together and prints no supplier total across all six. Where the report shows no total, we show none: Oticon's custom rechargeable row reads N/A in every month and carries no Number Sold figure, and we do not turn that into a zero.

Where does this report stop short of a current model list?

The report records what was sold to the VA over a past fiscal year. Three questions sit outside it:

1. Which models are on the current VA contract. That list is a contract document, not this report.
2. Which devices your VA medical center fits. Local practice is not in a national total.
3. Which device suits your hearing. That is a clinical question for VA audiology, and the counts carry no answer to it.

If a named model matters to you, ask the audiology clinic that will fit you whether it can issue that model, and read the manufacturer's announcement as the manufacturer's claim. For how the VA covers hearing aids in the first place, see VA hearing aids; for when a VA aid can be swapped for a new one, see how often the VA replaces hearing aids.