Cochlear implants covered</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Cochlear implants covered"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Cochlear,implants,covered"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">08-04-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Cochlear implants covered</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Washington, USA (Community Dispatch): The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today that it would expand coverage of cochlear implant devices to help treat severe hearing loss. CMS is expanding current coverage for cochlear implants, which are used to treat bilateral pre-or-post linguistic, sensorineural, moderate to profound severe hearing loss. Previously, Medicare covered cochlear implants for beneficiaries with open-set sentence recognition test scores of 30 percent correct or worse. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://communitydispatch.com/artman/publish/article_711.shtml " target="blank">communitydispatch.com/artman/publish/article_711.shtml </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show