Table 2 Annual tinnitus-related treatment costs

Digital Hearing Aids

£85.00^a

Hearing aids assessments

£65.00^a

Hearing aids fitting

£65.00^a

Hearing aids follow up

£108.00^a

Hearing aid batteries

£12.00^b

Hearing Aid Repairs

£52.00^a

Cognitive Based Therapy (CBT) (all associated staff, diagnostic and operating cost and consist of 3 sessions per year)

£471.00^a

Tinnitus Therapy plus wearable sound generator (3 sessions with mid-point band level 6 for an allied health care professional)

£303.00^c

GP session (11.7 min)

£52.00^c

Pharmacotherapy - betahistine

£25.12^d

Pharmacotherapy - Amitriptyline

£13.29^e

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

£85.00^a

Associate Medical Specialist in ENT/Audiovestibular medicine (1 h)

£121.00^c

Audiologist (1 h)

£18.76^e

Clinical Psychologist (2 h)

£268.00^c