New material codes for hearing aids were added to the List of reimbursable devices of the Belgian National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (INAMI-RIZIV) in August 2019.
New material codes and related conditions of reimbursement have been implemented for the following devices:
Hearing aids:
- Devices will be reimbursed by individual price (tariff determined individually for each brand name) when registered in the Nominative lists 31101, 31102, 31201 and 31202
- The following procedure codes have been implemented:
- 180574 - 180585 “Kit comprising a complete hearing aid (implantable and non-implantable parts) for multielectrode intracochlear electrical stimulation for recipients under the age of eight, with bilateral deafness and impending bilateral ossification” with the tariff of €19,961;
- 180596 - 180600 “Kit comprising a complete hearing aid (implantable and non-implantable parts) for multielectrode intracochlear electrical stimulation, for recipients, from their eighth to the eighteenth birthday, with bilateral deafness and impending bilateral ossification” with the tariff of €20,345;
- 180611 - 180622 “Kit comprising a complete contralateral hearing aid (implantable and non-implantable parts) for multielectrode intracochlear electrical stimulation, for recipients under the age of eight, with bilateral deafness and impending bilateral ossification” with the tariff of €15,067;
- 180633 - 180644 “Kit comprising a complete contralateral hearing aid (implantable and non-implantable parts) for multielectrode intracochlear electrical stimulation, for recipients from their eighth to the eighteenth birthday, with bilateral deafness and impending bilateral ossification” with the tariff of €15,451;
- 180655 - 180666 “Kit comprising a complete hearing aid (implantable and non-implantable parts) for multielectrode intracochlear electrical stimulation, for recipients under the age of eight, with auditory neuropathy” with the tariff of €19,961;
- 180670 - 180681 “Kit comprising a complete hearing aid (implantable and non-implantable parts) for multielectrode intracochlear electrical stimulation, for recipients, from their eighth to the eighteenth birthday, with auditory neuropathy” with the tariff of €20,345;
- 180692 - 180703 “Kit comprising a complete contralateral hearing aid (implantable and non-implantable parts) for multielectrode intracochlear electrical stimulation, for recipients under the age of eight, with auditory neuropathy” with the tariff of €15,067.
- There are specific conditions of reimbursement for these technologies, provided in paragraphs C-§01 of the List of reimbursable implants and medical devices.
See the updated version of the List of the reimbursable devices in French and Dutch here.
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