Bill Text: MI HB5915 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Health occupations: audiologists; practice of audiology; modify to reflect the prescribing of hearing aids. Amends sec. 16801 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.16801).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-09-17 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 09/11/2024 [HB5915 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB5915-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 5915
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
by amending section 16801 (MCL 333.16801), as added by 2004 PA 97.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 16801. (1) As used in this part:
(a) "Audiologist" means an individual who is licensed under this article to engage in the practice of audiology.
(b) "Practice of audiology" means the nonmedical and nonsurgical application of principles, methods, and procedures related to disorders of hearing, including all of the following:
(i) Facilitating the conservation of auditory system function.
(ii) Developing and implementing hearing conservation programs.
(iii) Preventing, identifying, and assessing hearing disorders of the peripheral and central auditory system.
(iv) Selecting, fitting, prescribing, and dispensing of amplification systems, including hearing aids and related devices, and providing training for their use.
(v) Providing auditory training, consulting, education, and speech reading to individuals with hearing disorders.
(vi) Administering and interpreting tests of vestibular function and tinnitus in compliance with section 16809 and in adherence to the mandate of subsection (2).
(vii) Routine cerumen removal from the cartilaginous portion of the external ear in otherwise healthy ears except that if the audiologist, while engaged in routine cerumen removal, discovers any trauma, including, but not limited to, continuous uncontrolled bleeding, lacerations, or other traumatic injuries, he or she the audiologist shall, as soon as practically possible, refer the patient to a person an individual who is licensed to engage in the practice of medicine or osteopathic medicine and surgery.
(viii) Speech and language screening limited to a pass-fail determination for the purpose of identification of identifying individuals with disorders of communication.
(2) Practice of audiology does not include the practice of medicine or osteopathic medicine and surgery or medical diagnosis or treatment.
(3) In addition to the definitions in this part, article 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction applicable to all articles in this code and part 161 contains definitions applicable to this part.
