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✨ Hearing Aid Services Notice

1842 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 79 8 JUNE 2011

(2) A person is not eligible for hearing aid repairs that are eligible to be funded by a Deaf Education Centre.

Defined in this notice: hearing aid, hearing aid funding

BD2 Service specification: hearing aid repairs

A repair to a hearing aid covers a repair to a hearing aid—

(a) that was purchased through the Hearing Aid Funding Scheme, which—

(i) includes a hearing aid funded under the previous Children’s Hearing Aid Fund or the previous Equipment and Modification Services scheme; but

(ii) does not include a hearing aid purchased with the hearing aid subsidy; and

(b) if the repair—

(i) is necessary to re-establish the proper function of the hearing aid; and

(ii) is cost-effective for meeting the eligible person’s hearing needs; but

(i) replacing consumable items; and

(ii) repairing a hearing aid if the repair is covered by a warranty; and

(iii) the cost of assessing or fitting a repaired hearing aid by any person.

Defined in this notice: consumable items, eligible person, hearing aid, hearing aid subsidy

Procedural requirements

BD3 Eligible person must be given required information

Before any hearing aid repairs are started, an audiology provider must ensure that the eligible person concerned is given the following information:

(a) a quote of the repair cost:

(b) the amount of funding (if any) that is available from the services manager for the repair.

Defined in this notice: audiology provider, eligible person, hearing aid, services manager

BD4 Application for hearing aid repairs

An audiology provider’s application for approval to fund an eligible person’s hearing aid repairs must be made in accordance with the process set out by the services manager.

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🏥 Hearing Aid Services Notice 2011 (continued from previous page)

Domain🏥 Health & Social Welfare
KeywordsHearing aid services, Eligibility criteria, Information requirements, Funding approval, Assessment, Hearing needs, Trial process

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