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Problemaid eligibility from Medicare Advantage rules, third-party hearing networks, prior-auth edge cases, and patient financing. AMA says 95% of clinicians see care delays from prior auth, and audiology Reddit threads describe 14-day lead times before year-end fittings.
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Solutionready, must be routed through TruHearing or Amplifon, still needs paperwork, or should move to self-pay before the schedule breaks.
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Market opportunity$495 per month for audiology software, but incumbents stop at recordkeeping. The messy insurance-clearance layer is still manual and narrow enough for a solo founder wedge.