Hearing instrument; repurchase; medical evaluation, when required.

Neb. Rev. Stat. § 38-1526 — under HEALTH OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS.

Neb. Rev. Stat. § 38-1526

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.