38-1526. Hearing instrument; repurchase; medical evaluation, when required.
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A purchaser of a hearing instrument shall not be required to obtain a medical evaluation for the repurchase of a hearing instrument after a medical evaluation has been obtained for certain otologic conditions that are permanent and would be reidentified at each hearing assessment. Such conditions shall include, but not be limited to:
(1)Visible congenital or traumatic deformity of the ear;
(2)Unilateral or asymmetric hearing loss, assuming no change in thresholds; and
(3)Audiometric air-bone gap equal to or greater than fifteen decibels at five hundred hertz, one thousand hertz, and two thousand hertz.