Marketing Flashcards
Is it unlawful for a practitioner to act on any form of public communication that is false/misleading/deceptive info in connection with the practice?
Yes
What are considered false, fraudulent, misleading, or deceptive statement?
- Misrepresentation of fact
- Mislead due to failure to disclose material facts
- Create false expectations of favorable results
- Use image without clearly stating in a prominent locations in easily and readable
- Use image depict the result of procedure of “before” and “after”; needs to report the result may not occur in all patients
- Fees without fully disclosing all factors
- Making scientific claim that cannot be substantiated by reliable studies
- Failure to disclose material facts
Should the price advertisement include these phrases? “as low as”, “and up”, “lowest prices”?
No
A practitioner can accept compensation in a representative of press, radio, or tv?
No
T/F Can use any card, office sign, letterhead, directory listing, medical list, or others to claim false, fraudulent, misleading
False
What is it when one violates advertisement practices?
Misdemeanor; suspension of license
What should an advertisement include?
- Name of practitioner
- Address and phone number of offices
- Office hours
- Languages other than English
- Statement of certification
- Statement of practitioner under private/public insurance or health care plan
- Statement of names of the clinical programs the practitioner graduated from
- Statement of publications
- Statement of teaching positions
- Statement of affiliations with hospitals/clinics
- Statement of charges/fees of services offered by the practitioner
- Statement of the practitioner regularly accepts installment payment of fees
- Lawful image of a practitioner
- Statement of commodities advertised
- Statement of a registered dispensing opticians
- Statement of public health info encouraging preventative care
- Any other factual info
What can the statement of certification include?
Certification by a private or public board or parent association recognized by that practitioner’s licensing board
What is it when one committed false advertisement?
Misdemeanor and imprisonment of 6 months or fine 2,500 dollars or both
What is the result when one sends a solicitor to house to house?
Revoke/suspend license
Which title can an optometrist can use?
The use of Dr. with optometrist at the end
Use O.D. after practitioner’s name
Can an optometrist claim oneself a specialist in eye disease/treatment?
No
What can happen if one stated having special knowledge of optometry?
Revoke/suspend of license
What can happen when someone claim oneself as an optometrist without a valid unrevoke license?
It is unlawful
T/F It is unlawful to advertise free services with payment or exchange of consideration of goods/services, unless it is fully disclosed in the same advertisement
True