Other Medical Equipment or Supplies (755) #
Service Code Definition: #
A regional center shall classify a vendor as a provider of other medical equipment or supplies if the vendor is:
(A) A dispensing optician who is validly registered as a dispensing optician by the Division of Allied Health Professions of the Medical Board of California, and who:
1. Fills prescriptions of physicians or optometrists for prescription lenses and related products;
2. Fits and adjusts such lenses and spectacle frames; and
3. Fits contact lenses under the advice, direction, and responsibility of a physician or optometrist;
(B) A hearing aid dispenser who is validly licensed as a hearing aid dispenser by the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board of the California Department of Consumer Affairs, and who:
1. Performs audiometric pure tone and speech testing;
2. Tests hearing in order to fit, dispense, or repair hearing aids; and
3. Is not vendored separately as an audiology center or individually as an audiologist; or
(C) A prosthetic and orthotic appliance factory which fits and sells orthotic and prosthetic appliances necessary for the restoration of function or replacement of body parts.
