Published  by the VCA

Below are a list of states with recent laws positively impacting the use of in-office lens production.

Alabama: The Access to Eye Care Act prohibits insures of vision care services from…choosing sources of suppliers.

Arkansas: Cannot restrict or limit the vision care provider’s choice of optical labs or sources and suppliers of services or materials.

Kansas: No vision care insurance policy…or discount plan that provides covered services or materials will be allowed to limit the choice of sources and suppliers of materials by a patient of a vision care provider.

Maine: A vision care plan cannot restrict an eye care provider in an agreement from choosing its sources and supplies of services and materials.

Missouri: Vision care insurance policies and vision care discount plans that provide covered services for materials cannot directly or indirectly limit providers’ choice of sources and supplier of materials.

Oregon: You cannot restrict a provider’s choice of suppliers of materials.

Texas: A managed care plan cannot “restrict or limit a choice of sources or suppliers of services or materials, including optical laboratories.”

Virginia: The vision care plan cannot require a provider to use a particular optical lab.