Utah Code > Title 58 > Chapter 46a > Part 1 – General Provisions
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- Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
- Practice of a hearing instrument specialist: means :
(a) establishing a place of business to practice as a hearing instrument specialist; (b) testing the hearing of a human patient over the age of 17 for the sole purpose of determining whether a hearing loss will be sufficiently improved by the use of a hearing instrument to justify prescribing and selling the hearing instrument and whether that hearing instrument will be in the best interest of the patient; (c) providing the patient a written statement of prognosis regarding the need for or usefulness of a hearing instrument for the patient's condition; (d) prescribing an appropriate hearing instrument; (e) making impressions or earmolds for the fitting of a hearing instrument; (f) sale and professional placement of the hearing instrument on a patient; (g) evaluating the hearing loss overcome by the installation of the hearing instrument and evaluating the hearing recovery against the representations made to the patient by the hearing instrument specialist; (h) necessary intervention to produce satisfactory hearing recovery results from a hearing instrument; or (i) instructing the patient on the use and care of the hearing instrument. See Utah Code 58-46a-102 - Supervising hearing instrument specialist: means a hearing instrument specialist who:
(a) is licensed by and in good standing with the division; (b) has practiced full-time as a hearing instrument specialist for not less than two years; and (c) is approved as a supervisor by the division. See Utah Code 58-46a-102 - Supervising hearing instrument specialist: means a hearing instrument specialist who: