I'm sure this has been discussed before but since I cannot find it, I will post the question.
Is there a law in NYS or anywhere in the US for that matter that prevents an Optician or Optometrist from withholding a patient's PD?
I'm sure this has been discussed before but since I cannot find it, I will post the question.
Is there a law in NYS or anywhere in the US for that matter that prevents an Optician or Optometrist from withholding a patient's PD?
The Secretary of Ophthalmic Dispensing has stated that the PD of record must be given out when requested.
B
Thanks Barry.
Do you have a link to share?
Office of the Professions
Must an ophthalmic dispenser make a patient's pupillary distance measurement available to the patient?
Once an ophthalmic dispenser measures and records the patient's pupillary distance, it becomes part of the patient's records. As such, it would be available to the patient in accordance with the provisions of sections 29.1(b)(7) and 29.2(b) of the Rules of the Board of Regents and section 18 of the Public Health Law.
See all of it; ===========>
http://www.op.nysed.gov/prof/od/odfaq.htm
I found it. Thanks.
I often forget how useful Google can be.
Jonah ... did you use the link Chris provided or find an additional one? If so, would you please share?
cs
HMm. I wonder how one would record a p.d. in NYS?
Although a PD is not required on an Rx, the patient has the right to ask for it in one way or another, if you have it.
Do most autorefractors take a PD as they do their thing? Horribly inaccurate I would imagine.
cs
I would give them small, medium or large.
A right to the information contained in their medical record.
B
What does it matter? The days of the 700 dollar glasses are done.
http://www.zennioptical.com/measurin...FQotHwod-qQD-g
AHA! Verrrryyy interesting....
Also, do you just have to provide PD, as one number, or does it require mono PD? Seems like the wording only means total PD, if so, that number isn't much use anyway if there is much of a difference between the two eyes. I've read that the do-it-yourself PD measurement is total garbage, off by 4 mm or more compared to someone measuring it properly with a pupilometer.
I own a retail optical in the age of onlin eglasses. Most young thrifty people will try online glasses at least once. Most fit terribly and have low RXes.
I don't know what the future will hold. These are some of my thoughts.
If it isn't important, then why do we bother measuring it at all? Why not just pull a number out of a hat and just go with it? Or ask the patient what they want their PD to be? Or why bother investing in tools and machines and software when we can just hold a ruler on our foreheads and look in a mirror?
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity
I sell $700 glasses all the time. I think internet glasses are a gift. It keeps out the people who think the know everything and that the whole world has a conspiracy to steal their hard earned money directly through the optical shop, and for those who have tried and gotten a complete failure, they come back tail between their legs and beg for relief.
However, I'm not the boss, and my boss says we are not to give out measurements and we aren't to take them for a fee either. We'll see what washington law does
3 in and 3 below worked for years.
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