Arkansas<\/strong>: Cannot restrict or limit the vision care provider’s choice of optical labs or sources and suppliers of services or materials.<\/p>\n Maine<\/strong>: A vision care plan cannot restrict an eye care provider in an agreement from choosing its sources and supplies of services and materials.<\/p>\n Missouri: <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n Oregon:<\/strong> You cannot restrict a provider’s choice of suppliers of materials.<\/p>\n Texas:<\/strong> A managed care plan cannot “restrict or limit a choice of sources or suppliers of services or materials, including optical laboratories.”<\/p>\n Virginia:<\/strong> The vision care plan cannot require a provider to use a particular optical lab.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Published\u00a0 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 … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.opticaldynamics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/QandARclearLIGTHplussunSMARTGreyII.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
Kansas:<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n