Current through August 31, 2023
01.
Standards
of Professional Conduct. Licensees must comply with the following
standards of professional conduct: (3-28-23)
a. Practicing optometry in a manner which
meets the standard of optometric care provided by other qualified licensees in
the same or similar community, taking into account education, training, and
experience. (3-28-23)
b. Employing
only those techniques or methods of practice in treating or prescribing to a
patient for which the licensee has the necessary education, training, and
experience. (3-28-23)
c. Referring
a patient suffering from any apparent or suspected pathological condition to a
person competent and licensed to properly treat or diagnose the condition.
(3-28-23)
d. Verifying the
specifications of all lenses provided to a patient and advising a patient of
possible danger when a lens provided to the patient does not meet impact
resistant standards set forth in
21 CFR
801.410. (3-28-23)
02.
Vision Therapy. Any person
who assesses, diagnoses, treats, or prescribes treatment for conditions of the
visual system or manages a patient with vision therapy, visual training, visual
rehabilitation, orthoptics or eye exercises or who holds him/herself out as
being able to do so for the rehabilitation and/or treatment of physical,
physiological, sensorimotor, neuromuscular or perceptual anomalies of the eyes
or vision system or who prescribes or utilizes lenses, prisms, filters,
occlusion or other devices for the enhancement, rehabilitation and/or treatment
of the visual system or prevention of visual dysfunctions, except under the
supervision and management of a licensed optometrist, is engaged in the
practice of optometry. (3-28-23)
03.
Prescriptions for Spectacles and
Contact Lenses. Eyeglasses and contact lenses, including plano or
cosmetic contact lenses, may only be dispensed upon a current prescription
issued by an optometrist or medical physician. Every prescription written or
issued by an optometrist practicing in Idaho shall contain at least the
following information: (3-28-23)
a.
Prescription for Spectacles. Prescriptions for spectacles must contain the
following: Sphere, cylinder, axis, prism power, and additional power, if
applicable. The standard expiration date of the prescription must be at least
one (1) year from the date the prescription was originally issued.
(3-28-23)
b. All Prescriptions for
Rigid/Soft Contact Lenses. All prescriptions for contact lenses must contain at
least the following information: base curve, lens manufacturer or "brand" name,
overall diameter, power; and the standard expiration date of the prescription
must be at least one (1) year from date the prescription was originally issued.
A shorter prescription period may be allowed when based upon a documented
medical condition. (3-28-23)
04.
Expired Contact Lens
Prescription. A person may not fill an expired contact lens
prescription. (3-28-23)
05.
Fitting and Dispensing Contact Lenses. (3-28-23)
a. Contact lenses may be fitted only by an
optometrist, or licensed physician. (3-28-23)
b. An ophthalmic dispenser may dispense
contact lenses on a fully written contact lens prescription issued by an
optometrist or licensed physician. (3-28-23)
c. Notwithstanding Subsection
200.05.b., an optometrist, or
licensed physician who issues a contact lens prescription remains
professionally responsible to the patient. (3-28-23)
06.
Preceptorship Program. An
optometrist may use a student of optometry in their office under their direct
supervision for educational purposes. (3-28-23)
07.
The Right to Obtain and Use
Pharmaceutical Agents. The right to obtain and use pharmaceutical agents
for use in diagnosis and/or treatment of another in the practice of optometry
as defined by Section
54-1501, Idaho Code, is subject to
the following conditions set out below: (3-28-23)
a. Optometrists can prescribe, administer,
and dispense therapeutic pharmaceutical agents, and use only those listed
below: (3-28-23)
i. All medications for use
in the diagnosis of and/or conditions of the human eye and/or eyelid.
(3-28-23)
ii. All over-the-counter
agents. (3-28-23)
b. In
order to prescribe, administer and dispense the therapeutic medications a
person must meet the requirements set out below: (3-28-23)
i. License in good standing, and successful
passage of the "Treatment and Management of Ocular Diseases" exam.
(3-28-23)
