Hearing instrument specialist vs hearing consultant

Differences between hearing instrument specialist and hearing consultant duties and responsibilities

Hearing instrument specialist example responsibilities.

• Interview patients about health history and review specific FDA questions to determine if patients need a medical referral.
• Supervise daily operations, perform a variety of hearing evaluations, counsele patients, and service hearing instruments.
• Perform accounting using Peachtree software.
• Enter patient information into Noah and pre program all devices.
• Assist in manufacturing, testing, diagnosing, and calibrating hearing assistive devices.
• Design, document and execute testing procedures, including settings, guidelines and troubleshoot.
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Hearing consultant example responsibilities.

• Conduct outreach calls when need to obtain additional appellant information and to clarify inconsistent information need to resolve appeals.
• Utilize computer program to create and to submit complete and accurate protests and appeals.
• Provide patient assessment and audiometric evaluations; technology recommendations and hearing instrument fitting.
• Service and repair defective BTE's from customers.