New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 16 - OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSING
Chapter 16 - OPTOMETRIC PRACTITIONERS
Part 19 - CONTACT LENSES
Section 16.16.19.9 - CONTACT LENS EXAMINATION AND FOLLOW-UP FITTING REQUIRED
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. No optometrist will prescribe contact lenses for a patient unless he/she has personally examined and fitted the contact lenses to the eyes of the patient at the optometrist's place of practice.
B. A replacement contact lens prescription is deemed to be determined after a refraction, eye health examination, diagnostic contact lens fitting, instruction on care/maintenance procedures, and appropriate follow-up care (16.16.19.7.B NMAC) have been performed.
C. [RESERVED]
D. No optometrist may write a replacement contact lens prescription until the procedures in Subsections A and B of this rule have been performed (see 16.16.19.9 NMAC).
E. No optometrist may write a contact lens prescription for a patient whose eye health would be compromised through wearing contact lenses.
F. If, in the professional opinion of the optometrist, a patient is not adhering to an appropriate regimen of care and follow-up with regard to the use of contact lenses, the optometrist may terminate his/her care of that patient. The optometrist shall notify the patient in writing that the optometrist is terminating care and shall state his/her reason for doing so.
