Section 130. Contact lens standards

To fit contact lenses, the following shall be done:

1. The prescription (RX) must show evidence that contact lenses may be worn by the patient before the prescription can be filled by the licensed optician. Verbal approval from the optometrist or ophthalmologist or its agents or employees is acceptable. The licensed optician must make a notation in the patient's record of the name of the authorizing optometrist or ophthalmologist and the date of the authorization.

2. The optician must use all the following to fit contact lenses:

a. Slit Lamp;

b. Keratometer; and

c. Standardized Snellen type acuity chart.

Historical Notes

Former 18VAC100-20-87 derived from Volume 17, Issue 09, eff. March 1, 2001; amended and renumbered as 18VAC80-30-130, Virginia Register Volume 28, Issue 23, eff. August 15, 2012.

Statutory Authority

§ 54.1-201 of the Code of Virginia.