Legislative Victories In Optometry KY Flashcards
Medicaid parity
1982
TPA
1986
Any willing provider
1994
Oral and controlled substances
1996
Prohibition and discrimination by licensure
1998
KCHIP plan mandates vision care, eyeglasses and direct access to optometry
1998
Allows optometrists to be telehealth providers and be paid by medicaid and private insurance
2000
Optometry law revised to include low vision language
2000
Applied any willing provider to vision care plans
2000
Required preschool eye exam by optometrist or OMD
2000
Prompt pay and other insurance revisions
2002
Revisions of optometry law strengthening the authority of KY board of optometric examiners
2003
Mail order contact law
2003
Payment parity with OMD
2006
Optometrists to receive same copayment as physician for same service s
2006