Section 637B.0446 - Case history and minimum procedures required for prospective candidate for hearing aid; exception1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, a hearing aid specialist or dispensing audiologist shall take the pertinent case history of, and perform personally the following minimum procedures bilaterally on, each prospective candidate for a hearing aid: (a) Pure-tone audiometry, including air-conduction testing and bone-conduction testing through an annually calibrated system.(b) Live voice audiometry, only if a separate sound-treated room is available, or recorded voice audiometry, including speech-reception threshold testing, most comfortable and uncomfortable level testing, and speech discrimination testing presented through a speech audiometer.(c) When applicable, effective masking. (d) Before a hearing test and an ear impression is performed, an otoscopic examination of the ear canal in which the tympanic membrane is visualized.(e) After an ear impression is performed, an otoscopic examination in which the tympanic membrane is visualized.2. A hearing aid specialist or dispensing audiologist shall perform each procedure set forth in subsection 1 in a proper environment to obtain accurate results. 3. The minimum procedures set forth in subsection 1 are not required if the person supplies the hearing aid specialist or dispensing audiologist with complete results of the required tests which have been given within the immediately preceding 6 months by a qualified tester who is licensed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and chapter 637B of NRS.Nev. Admin. Code § 637B.0446
Added to NAC by Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology & Hearing Aid Dispensing Bd. by R129-15A, eff. 6/28/2016