Self-Fitting Air-Conduction Hearing Aid, Over the Counter

What Is This Device?

A self-fitting air-conduction hearing aid is a wearable sound amplifying device that is intended to compensate for impaired hearing and incorporates technology, including software, that allows users to program their hearing aids. This technology integrates user input with a self-fitting strategy and enables users to independently derive and customize their hearing aid fitting and settings. This is an over the counter hearing aid.

For information on the final rule “Establishing Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids,” please see 87 FR 50698, available at https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-08-17/pdf/2022-17230.pdf.

How Is QUH Classified?

Self-Fitting Air-Conduction Hearing Aid, Over The Counter is FDA product code QUH, Class 2, 21 CFR 874.3325.

How Does It Reach the US Market?

A 510(k) premarket notification is required before it is sold in the United States: the applicant shows the device is substantially equivalent to one already on the market. Chinese applicants hold 1 clearance under this code; the FDA took 532 days from receipt to decision.