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1998 SESSION

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HB 1311 Health professions; selling eyeglasses.

Introduced by: John H. Rust, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY:

Health professions; selling eyeglasses. Allows practitioners of the healing arts to sell eyeglasses and contact lenses from within the practitioner's office if the practitioner is engaged in the examination of eyes and prescribing of eyeglasses. Only those practitioners of the healing arts who engage in the examination of eyes and prescribing of eyeglasses may engage in the sale or promotion of eyeglasses. While maintaining the duty of practitioners to inform the patient of his right to have the prescription filled at any establishment, the bill removes the prohibition against offering any inducement or encouragement to patients to have the prescription filled at an establishment owned or partially owned by the practitioner. These activities are more specifically covered under the practitioners' Self-Referral Act.


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