Audiology in Stockholm and Skåne is controlled by the hearing aid industry, according to HRF (HRF).
Two of the three utprovningar in county councils are performed by companies Avesina and audiologists & amp; Obedient, owned by the same group – and in 98 percent of cases recommends clinics Group’s own products.
– Doctors should not be linked to the pharmaceutical industry, it is to the very careful. But here you prescribers, audiologists, who are in fact employed by the same company that manufactures hearing aids, said HRF-Chairman Jan-Peter Strömgren SVT News.
Hearing aids are paid with a hearing check from the county up to 3 040 crowns.
“Ultimately, it is the user who decides,” writes Eva heel, president of Avesina and audiologists & amp; Obedient, in an email to SVT.
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