ALDA-Sonora / Arizona - Founded 2009

The Association of Late-Deafened Adults

Arizona’s 1st Group

HLAA announced that at their urging,  United Healthcare, an innovative leader in the health and well-

being industry, has reviewed appropriate scientific evidence and changed their clinical policies to

ALLOW coverage of bilateral cochlearimplants for children and adults.

Based on their review of evidence, they changed policy to cover bilateral implantation for children, and

for bilateral implantation of adults with post-lingual hearing loss. Implementation of the expanded

coverage will be in August 2009.

This brings United Healthcare in line with other large insurers to cover bilateral implantation.

HLAA Announcement August 6, 2009