Criteria: Table 11-1 Monaural Hearing Loss and Impairment (250), Table 11-2 Computation of Binaural Hearing Impairment (252-253), Table 11-3 Relationship of Binaural Hearing Impairment to Impairment of the Whole Person (254)
Follow specific directions provided on page 250, basing impairment on hearing levels at 500, 1000, 2000 and 3000 Hz. Note revisions provided in “Corrections and Clarifications” (AMA Press, August 2008) on page 10 to Table 11-1. Total deafness is 35% WPI.
