As of January 13, 2020, the cost of a cochlear implant costs about $200,000 to $500,000 a ****, which includes both medical costs and device costs.
Medical costs: about $100,000 to $200,000, including hospitalization, surgery, medicines, debugging, treatment of surgical complications and rehabilitation.
Installation costs: domestic cochlear implants are usually around 70,000 to 80,000 yuan, and imported cochlear implants are usually around 100,000 to 300,000 yuan. Cochlear implant is a kind of external voice processor will be converted into a certain form of sound coded electrical signals, and through the implanted electrode system directly stimulate the auditory nerve, restore or rebuild the hearing function of the deaf people's electronic devices.
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Post-implantation:
The cochlear implant opens after one month. Since different cochlear devices are designed on different principles, the hardware and software used vary, as do the methods, processes and parameters of the devices.
Said cochlear implant comprises an in vivo implant and an in vitro speech processor. Mapping is the process by which a professional adjusts the parameters of each cochlear implant to provide the most comfortable and effective stimulation for the patient and to allow the patient to comfortably hear a variety of sounds through computers and specialized equipment.
The speech processor does not work unless the professional sets the appropriate values in a series of parameters via machine transmission. Parameters that need to be adjusted after cochlear implantation include speech coding schemes such as SPEAK, CIS and ACE.
Channels 1-22 can be selected for the channel used. The frequency distribution of the channel outputs is filtered to a frequency range of 200 HZ-8 KHz for each channel; the threshold for each channel (the minimum level of auditory stimulation that can be produced in response to a T-value); and the maximum comfort stimulus for each channel (the maximum comfort stimulus). (This will make the patient feel the C value).
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