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The Act imposes on contact lens prescribers and sellers several requirements intended to enhance prescription portability. Among other things, prescribers must release a contact lens prescription to a patient and may not tie the prescription release to the purchase of lenses from the prescriber. Sellers may dispense lenses only in accordance ...
Public Law 108–164 108th Congress An Act. Dec. 6, 2003. [H.R. 3140] To provide for availability of contact lens prescriptions to patients, and for other purposes. Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act.
The Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act gives people certain rights, including the right to shop around when buying contact lenses. The Act also imposes duties on contact lens prescribers and sellers, and requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to develop and enforce implementing rules.
An act to provide for availability of contact lens prescriptions to patients, and for other purposes. The Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act (Pub. L. 108–164 (text) (PDF), 117 Stat. 2024, codified at 15 U.S.C. ch. 102 et seq.), also known as FCLCA, [citation needed] is a United States federal law that aims to improve consumer protection ...
This part, which shall be called the “Contact Lens Rule,” implements the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act, codified at 15 U.S.C. 7601-7610, which requires that rules be issued to address the release, verification, and sale of contact lens prescriptions. This part specifically governs contact lens prescriptions and related issues.
When a prescriber completes a contact lens fitting, the prescriber—. (1) whether or not requested by the patient, shall provide to the patient a copy of the contact lens prescription; and. (2) shall, as directed by any person designated to act on behalf of the patient, provide or verify the contact lens prescription by electronic or other means.
[108th Congress Public Law 164] [From the U.S. Government Printing Office] [DOCID: f:publ164.108] [[Page 2024]] FAIRNESS TO CONTACT LENS CONSUMERS ACT [[Page 117 STAT. 2025]] Public Law 108-164 108th Congress An Act To provide for availability of contact lens prescriptions to patients, and for other purposes. <<NOTE: Dec. 6, 2003 - [H.R. 3140]>> Be it enacted by the Senate and House of ...
The Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act (Pub.L. 108–164, 117 Stat. 2024, codified at 15 U.S.C. ch. 102 et seq.), also known as FCLCA, is a United States federal law that aims improving consumer protection and ocular health for contact lens users. This summary is from Wikipedia.
[108th Congress Public Law 164] [From the U.S. Government Printing Office] [DOCID: f:publ164.108] [[Page 2024]] FAIRNESS TO CONTACT LENS CONSUMERS ACT [[Page 117 STAT. 2025]] Public Law 108-164 108th Congress An Act To provide for availability of contact lens prescriptions to patients, and for other purposes. <<NOTE: Dec. 6, 2003 - [H.R. 3140 ...
[House Hearing, 108 Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] FAIRNESS TO CONTACT LENS CONSUMERS ACT
Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act (FCLCA) compliance and contact lens safety. With a growing number of websites and small retailers continuing to illegally offer decorative, non-corrective contact lenses for sale without prescription, doctors of optometry should be diligent in reporting all adverse events associated with such lenses.
The Contact Lens Rule contains two key requirements. The first requirement is that contact lens prescribers (i.e., optometrists and ophthalmologists) must provide patients with a copy of their contact lens prescriptions at the completion of a contact lens fitting. The second requirement is that a contact lens seller cannot provide contact lenses to its customer unless the seller either obtains ...
108th Congress Report HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1st Session 108-318 ===== FAIRNESS TO CONTACT LENS CONSUMERS ACT _____ October 15, 2003.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed _____ Mr. Tauzin, from the Committee on Energy and Commerce, submitted the following R E P O R T [To accompany H.R. 3140] [Including cost estimate of the ...
§ 7601. Availability of contact lens prescriptions to patients § 7602. Immediate payment of fees in limited circumstances § 7603. Prescriber verification § 7604. Expiration of contact lens prescriptions § 7605. Content of advertisements and other representations § 7606. Prohibition of certain waivers § 7607.
The Federal Trade Commission has issued its final rule implementing the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act. The Act, which was enacted on December 6, 2003, requires that contact lens prescribers provide patients with a copy of their contact lens prescriptions after a contact lens fitting and verify those prescriptions to any third party designated by a patient, such as an online seller.
Why the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act (FCLCA) exists. The American Optometric Association has a long, well-documented history of anti-consumer behavior. This anti-consumer behavior was the primary reason attorneys general from 32 states filed an antitrust lawsuit (MDL 1030) in the late 1990's against the American Optometric Association ...
In 2003, Congress enacted the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act (“FCLCA” or “Act”), and pursuant to the Act, the Commission promulgated the Contact Lens Rule on July 2, 2004. The Rule went into effect on August 2, 2004.
Update to the Contact Lens Rule The landmark Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act of 2003 (FCLCA) ensures consumers can shop around when buying contact lenses. The law has increased competition among retailers and provided America’s 41 million contact lens wearers with more choice, greater convenience and lower prices.
appear today to discuss HR 2221, the ``Fairness to Contact Lens. Consumers Act,'' on behalf of AOA and its 34,000 members. HR 2221 would require that doctors provide contact lens. prescriptions to patients following a fitting period, and respond to.
The FCLCA states that a prescriber "shall, as directed by any person designated to act on behalf of the patient provide or verify the contact lens designated to act on behalf of the patient, provide or verify the contact lens prescription by electronic or other means." If a prescriber fails to communicate with a seller within 8 business hours ...