Too high equipment costs, under-equipped French. The Competition Authority decided Wednesday 10 February, to study the distribution of hearing aids. This is to understand the reasons leading to such price levels - 1550 euros per ear on average - as deaf are obliged to give to sail.
The antitrust assess the state of competition in the entire industry: an investigation that will go in the concentration of producers - four of them hold 80% of the global market - the very high margins of distributors, through the numerus clausus on students to protect this market. Two steps punctuate this procedure. In the summer, an interim report will give rise to a public consultation. The final opinion will be made in December. It will include proposals for improvement.
The Competition Authority is part of an observation: about 4.4 million people appareillables in France, only 1.5 million have hearing aids, a 32% penetration rate, against 41% in the United United. "Among the reasons cited for this under-equipped, the price of equipment is advanced regularly," she says. 1 550 euros per ear include buying and patient monitoring during the five years that follow. "This amount may hamper the purchase, ...
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