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19.2.1 Clients Birth Through 20 Years of Age
For clients birth through 20 years of age, hearing aids and related services are authorized and reimbursed through PACT for children with suspected or identified permanent hearing loss.
PACT provides the following services:
• Audiological assessment (a diagnostic assessment not a screening assessment)
•Otological examination
•Hearing aid evaluation
•Ear mold
•Second ear mold
•Hearing aid fitting
•First follow-up (30 days)
•Second follow-up (60 days)
•Refit and evaluation after repair
•Auditory brainstem evoked response
CSHCN Services Program clients who are found by PACT providers to have a medically or surgically treatable hearing loss must be referred to programs, providers, or state agencies that are responsible for medical treatment and management.
For more information about PACT, including a list of services and PACT providers, providers may contact:
PACT
Health Screening Branch
1100 West 49th Street, MC-1918
Austin, TX 78756-3199
1-800-252-8023
Website: www.dshs.state.tx.us/audio/program.shtm
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