22 Tex. Admin. Code § 279.13 - Professional Responsibility for Off-Site Examinations
(a) The Texas Optometry Act was enacted in
part to safeguard the visual welfare of the public and the optometrist-patient
relationship and to fix professional responsibility with respect to the
patient.
(b) In order to comply
with these objectives and to assure patients will have adequate follow-up care,
this rule applies to licensed optometrists or therapeutic optometrists who
practice optometry or therapeutic optometry, including the examination and
prescribing or supplying of lenses to patients away from their place of
practice such as:
(1) a nursing home or other
abode to patients confined therein,
(2) an industrial site, when requested to do
so, or
(3) a school site when
requested to do so by the school administration.
(c) The optometrist or therapeutic
optometrist must have an office location or place of practice within reasonable
traveling distance of such examination site, or, in the alternative must have
made arrangements, confirmed in writing prior to offering or providing
services, for continued care with a qualified eye health professional with an
office location or place of practice within reasonable traveling distance of
such examination site, or assured telehealth access for continued
care.
(d) Failure to comply with
this rule shall be deemed as practicing from house-to-house and the improper
solicitation of patients in violation of the Act, §351.455. In addition,
the optometrist must comply with the requirements of §351.351 to maintain
current information regarding practice locations with the board
office.
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