Legislative Victories In Optometry KY

Question 1

Medicaid parity

Answer 1

1982

Question 2

TPA

Answer 2

1986

Question 3

Any willing provider

Answer 3

1994

Question 4

Oral and controlled substances

Answer 4

1996

Question 5

Prohibition and discrimination by licensure

Answer 5

1998

Question 6

KCHIP plan mandates vision care, eyeglasses and direct access to optometry

Answer 6

1998

Question 7

Allows optometrists to be telehealth providers and be paid by medicaid and private insurance

Answer 7

2000

Question 8

Optometry law revised to include low vision language

Answer 8

2000

Question 9

Applied any willing provider to vision care plans

Answer 9

2000

Question 10

Required preschool eye exam by optometrist or OMD

Answer 10

2000

Question 11

Prompt pay and other insurance revisions

Answer 11

2002

Question 12

Revisions of optometry law strengthening the authority of KY board of optometric examiners

Answer 12

2003

Question 13

Mail order contact law

Answer 13

2003

Question 14

Payment parity with OMD

Answer 14

2006

Question 15

Optometrists to receive same copayment as physician for same service s

Answer 15

2006

Question 16

ODs allowed to dispense FDA ophthalmic devices containing meds

Answer 16

2008

Question 17

SB 110- scope of practice expansion, board authority clarified

Answer 17

2011

Question 18

Noncovered services law

Answer 18

2012

Question 19

Ability to RX hydrocodone combinations retained in case it is moved to schedule II

Answer 19

2013

Question 20

Early refills of eye drops required

Answer 20

2014

Question 21

Prohibition on tying participation in vision plan to being on health plan network

Answer 21

2015

Question 22

No difference allowed in credentialing requirements for ODs than MDs

Answer 22

2015