The solution to exponentially growing your audiology and hearing center department's profitability — and treating more patients with hearing loss. We empower your audiologists to practice at the top of their license while you focus on ENT.
Today
35 locations and growing
Hearing care delivered through partner ENT clinics across the United States.
Backed by clinical experience
Built by ENT-experienced operators.
Our team has run practices, fit thousands of devices, and built the workflow we'd want as physicians.
~9×
More patients with untreated SNHL in a typical ENT chart than the practice currently treats.
$0
Hearing-aid inventory on your balance sheet under the Virsono model.
5–7 weeks
Typical timeline from agreement to a fully staffed audiology line operating in your clinic.
Four forces have made the audiology line one of the hardest service lines for an ENT practice to run profitably.
01
Most audiology departments inside ENT clinics today run at or near breakeven. The revenue is there in the patient base, but the operating model leaves very little on the bottom line.
02
Training pipelines have not kept up with demand. Time-to-fill at a typical ENT practice runs six to nine months, and salary escalation is constant. A vacation, a maternity leave, or a single resignation becomes a revenue gap.
03
Reimbursement rates for ENT procedures and audiology services keep moving the wrong way. The margin per encounter is thinner than it was five years ago, and the trajectory has not turned.
04
Highly trained, highly paid audiologists spend their day on inventory management, supplier calls, warranty claims, and patient outreach. Three of the fifteen jobs in a typical hearing center are revenue-generating. The other twelve are administrative.
The hiring problem isn't local to your practice. Across the country, demand for hearing care is outpacing the supply of providers.
57%
of U.S. counties have zero audiologists.
75%
of U.S. counties report an audiology shortage.
Despite an 83% increase in hearing health professionals from 2012 to 2022, demand continues to far outpace supply.
Sources: Social Science & Medicine (2019); American Academy of Audiology (2025)
Virsono operates inside your ENT clinic — in your EHR, under your brand, in your workflow. We provide the audiologist coverage and own the hearing-aid line. Your practice earns recurring service revenue and rental income, without the inventory or the staffing burden.
A typical hearing center department does fifteen distinct jobs. Three of them generate revenue. The other twelve are operational overhead. Virsono takes the twelve.
| Hearing center jobs | ENT | Virsono |
|---|---|---|
| Audiometric diagnostic testing | ✓ | |
| Hearing treatment evaluations | ✓ | |
| Hearing aid delivery & 1st fitting | ✓ | |
| Real ear measurement & sound field | ✓ | |
| Trial-period hearing aid follow-ups | ✓ | |
| 3–4 service & maintenance visits / year | ✓ | |
| Annual hearing test, programming & fitting | ✓ | |
| Warranty repairs, loss & damage claims | ✓ | |
| Reengaging tested-not-treated patients | ✓ | |
| Expired-warranties outreach | ✓ | |
| Inventory management | ✓ | |
| Supplier management | ✓ | |
| Accounts payable & receivable | ✓ | |
| Recruit & hire audiologists | ✓ | |
| Train, manage & lead audiologists | ✓ |
Aligned with AAO-HNS clinical practice guidelines.
Across the practices we partner with, the audiology service line consolidates dramatically — because most of the day was never spent on revenue work in the first place.
3-ENT practice
2 → 0.75
Audiology FTE before vs. after Virsono.
6-ENT practice
4 → 1.5
Audiology FTE before vs. after Virsono.
12-ENT practice
8 → 3
Audiology FTE before vs. after Virsono.
>62%
Reduction in audiology FTE across our partner practices.
>2×
Profit increase from reduced overhead and increased effectiveness.
90%
Reduction in administrative support required from the practice.
4.8 / 5
Average Google rating across our hearing centers.
73
Net Promoter Score across our hearing centers.
Most practices go from a first conversation to live Virsono audiology in three to four months.
Week 1–2
A 30-minute call. You share your patient base and current dispensary economics; we share how the model would look in your market.
Week 2–4
We build a detailed side-by-side model on your real patient data. You and your partners see exactly what changes on the P&L before any commitment.
Month 2–4
Credentialing, EHR integration, dispensary setup, audiologist placement, and protocol alignment. We project-manage end-to-end.
Month 4+
Virsono audiology coverage running inside your clinic. The first SNHL patient capture campaign goes out. Monthly P&L reporting starts.
"This model is genius. You have tapped into the Achilles heel of every ENT practice in the nation — the audiologist."
— Dr Chetan Shah, Founder, Princeton Eye & Ear
Read the full Princeton Eye & Ear case studyA rough pro forma for your practice using industry-standard SNHL rates and Virsono's service-fee structure. No login. No salesperson. Just numbers.
No. Virsono is a service-line partnership, not an acquisition. You keep ownership of your ENT practice and your patient relationships — Virsono manages the hearing-care ancillary inside your clinic, aligned to the culture of your practice.
Through a hybrid in-person and virtual model. The patient comes into your clinic, an in-office Virsono treatment technician supports them, and a remote Virsono audiologist performs the full diagnostics and evaluation — a scalable, cost-effective way to deliver specialty audiology.
Every practice is different, and our model is flexible. In some partnerships we work alongside your existing audiologists — in person or virtually. In others, we bring audiologists from your current team onto Virsono. We tailor the resource structure to your practice, so you get the right coverage without carrying the full staffing burden.
No. The model is built around the medical treatment of hearing loss, modeled to AAO-HNS clinical practice guidelines and tailored to your practice. Your physicians stay at the center of care.
Yes. Virsono's Medical Treatment of Hearing Loss model is built to AAO-HNS clinical practice guidelines, with standardized training, state-of-the-art equipment, and concierge-level patient care.
A full range of premium hearing technology. Virsono partners with the major hearing-aid manufacturers and offers four levels of technology, so your patients get advanced, best-fit solutions that most independent practices can't offer on their own.
Two things, both revenue-generating: audiometric diagnostic testing and hearing-aid fittings. The other twelve jobs that fill a typical audiology day — inventory, supplier calls, warranty claims, billing, re-engagement, recruiting, training — are handled by Virsono.
Care is delivered inside your clinic, under your practice's brand and aligned to your culture. Virsono provides the audiologist coverage and runs the operations behind the scenes — the patient experience stays yours.
A short call, a look at your patient base and current audiology setup, and a side-by-side model you can take to your partners.
