Ch. 1, § 3. Definitions

Except as otherwise specified in Wyoming Medicaid Rules Chapter 1, Title 35 of the Wyoming Statutes, or this Section, the terminology used in this Chapter is the standard terminology and has the standard meaning as used in health care, Medicaid, and Medicare. (a) "Audiogram" means the visual result of an audiometry hearing test administered by an audiologist or other health professional. (b) "Audiologist" means an individual currently licensed to practice audiology in the State of Wyoming. (c) "Eligible Adult" means a Wyoming resident not less than eighteen (18) years of age who has been diagnosed by a physician or audiologist with a profound hearing impairment that requires hearing aids and who has a monthly modified adjusted gross family income at or below two hundred percent (200%) of the federal poverty level. (d) "Hearing aid" means as defined by W.S. 33-35-102(a)(ii). (e) "Hearing aid accessory" means a chest harness, tone and ear hooks, carrying cases, and other accessories that not included in the cost of the hearing aid but that are necessary to recipient's use of the hearing aid. (f) "Hearing aid service provider" means: (i) All in-state Wyoming providers and out-of-state providers that are currently enrolled in the Wyoming Medicaid program to dispense hearing instruments. (ii) Any individual or entity that has a current provider agreement, is licensed and/or certified to provide hearing services in the method being provided and is enrolled by the Department; (iii) An audiologist; or (iv) An otolaryngologist. (g) "Hearing aid services" means the services provided by a hearing aid services provider that are necessary to dispense hearing aids and provide hearing aid accessories and repairs. (h) "Hearing test" is an evaluation administered by a hearing aid services provider of an individual's ability to hear that includes the following components: (i) Testing of air-conducted stimuli at thresholds of five hundred hertz (Hz), one thousand Hz, two thousand Hz, and four thousand Hz; (ii) Assessment of air-conducted speech awareness or speech reception threshold; (iii) Establishment of most comfortable and most uncomfortable listening levels; (iv) Pure-tone conduction audiometry (unless an individual's age or capability precludes such testing. (i) "Otolaryngologist" means a physician specializing in diseases of the ear and larynx who is board eligible or board certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology.