18VAC80-30-130: Contact lens standards

To fit contact lenses, the following must 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 contact lens endorsed optician. Verbal approval from the optometrist or ophthalmologist or agents or employees of the optometrist or ophthalmologist is acceptable. The contact lens endorsed 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 topographer; and

c. Standardized Snellen type acuity chart.