Section 3(a) of the Texas Contact Lens Prescription Act (Act), Article 4552-A, Texas Civil Statutes, prohibits an optometrist or therapeutic optometrist from charging the patient a fee in addition to the examination fee and the fitting fee as a condition for giving a contact lens prescription to the patient. The Board does not interpret the Act to prohibit charges in the fitting fee for lenses used to determine a final contact lens prescription.

Source Note:The provisions of this §279.16 adopted to be effective May 10, 1998, 23 TexReg 4268.