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In this section we provide relevant news articles and opinions, typically dissenting, about the US contact lenses prescription laws and the general belief by some contact lens consumers that the existing limit of time for which a contact lens prescription is current or valid is more related to keeping US Optomotrist's with a steady supply of repeat customers many siimply getting permsision to wear the same lenses they had the year previously. Note that we support getting contact lenses via a prescription and having a fitting done by a trained eye care provider... what we question is the frequency in which this is required. Eye doctor's have no other option but to trust that adult eye glass wearers will come in for a visit when they experience eye strain or feel there vision has been degraded in anyway. We think, as many others do, that this same options should be afforded to contact lens wearers after the initial fitting or that the duration for which a contact lenses prescription is considered current or valid should be increased to at least 3 years except in cases where the eye doctor has legitamite reasons to require the patient to return each year.
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Minnesota man claims his Optometrists is not following Minnesota contact lenses prescription laws.
If you've come to this site you might have the same sentiments as this US man who feels his eye Doctor didn't make it clear that his contact lenses prescription was not valid for the full 2 years allowed under Minnesota contact lenses statutes... requirements for contact lenses prescriptions.
Here is a snippet of the article...
Under state law, any contact lens prescriptions “must expire two years after it is written, unless a different expiration date is warranted by the patient’s ocular health.” Under the law, doctors must provide reasons for providing anything less than a two-year prescription during the exam.
The brief article did not provide much detail nor share an opinion from the author but it did however solicit several controversial comments from folks who obviously have strong feelings about their need to get a new contact lenses prescription each and every year. Here's our favorite...
Most adults know when they are not seeing properly. Next are they going make you stop using glasses that are more than one year old?? I've known people that wear the same glasses for a decade. Years ago, I got some new glasses and was told they can't guarantee the prescription because it was older than a year. Now is that sooooo hard! Optometrists just want more repeat business. Mine actually had someone call me because it's been a year.
Read the full article here at the Star Tribune Whisteblower section |
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