PST Page 1 of 2 SEM 1 Provider Contacts February 2015 Anthem Blue CrossProvider Contacts Published by: Anthem Blue Cross is the trade name of Blue Cross of California. Anthem Blue Cross and Anthem Blue Cross Life and Health Insurance Company are independent licensees of the Blue Cross Association.
In order to gauge the number of people with hearing loss in the United States, 80,000 members of the National Family Opinion (NFO) panel were surveyed. This survey, which has been funded by a sponsor of BHI since 1989, is published under the name MarkeTrak. The NFO panel is representative of U.S. households.
1 20 percent of U.S. adolescents suffer from some level of hearing loss. 2  Hearing loss among teens increased five percentage points over the past 15 years. 3  The U.S. hearing aid market was valued at nearly $6 billion in 2011. 4  The U.S. hearing aid market is expected to hit $8 billion by 2018.