Indiana Administrative Code
Title 844 - MEDICAL LICENSING BOARD OF INDIANA
Article 9 - HEARING AID DEALERS
Rule 6 - Supervision; Standards of Conduct
Section 6-2 - Standards of unprofessional conduct
Current through March 20, 2024
Authority: IC 25-20-1-23
Affected: IC 25-20-1
Sec. 2.
The following acts, if performed by a hearing aid dealer or a student hearing aid dealer, shall constitute grounds for disciplinary action:
(1) Aiding and abetting a person to fit and/or dispense hearing aids who does not hold a proper registration or student registration.
(2) Fraudulent billing practices.
(3) Attaching the description "audiologist", "doctor", "physician", or similar terms or abbreviations to a name indicating or inducing others to believe that the person is engaged in the practice of another profession.
(4) Use of any symbol or depiction which connotes the medical or audiological profession.
(5) Use of any terms that could reasonably mislead the public that a private business practice has some relationship to a governmental or nonprofit medical, educational, or research institution or entity.
(6) Use, cause, or promote the use of any advertising media, promotional literature, testimonial, guarantee, warranty, label, brand, insignia, or any other representation, however disseminated or published, which is misleading, deceiving, or untruthful. Included among the foregoing acts are misrepresentations relating to:
(7) Making representations in advertising or otherwise that a hearing aid is "guaranteed", without clear and conspicuous disclosure of:
(8) Making guarantees, warranties, or any promises which, under normal conditions, are impractical of fulfillment or which are for such a period of time or are otherwise of such nature as may have the tendency to mislead purchasers into the belief that the hearing aid has a greater degree of serviceability, durability, or performance capability in actual use than is in fact true.
(9) Advertise a particular model, type, or kind of hearing aid for sale when purchasers or prospective purchasers responding to the advertisement cannot purchase or are dissuaded from purchasing the advertised model, type, or kind, where it is established that the purpose of the advertisement is to obtain prospects for the sale of a different model, type, or kind than that advertised.