It also includes provisions that prevent managed care companies from precluding a covered person who seeks eyecare from obtaining such service directly from a provider on the health benefit plan provider panel who is licensed to provide eyecare.
The Act has many components, a large part of which prevents insurance companies from discriminating between classes of eyecare providers. Another scenario suggested to VMail by those representing managed vision care companies is that there could be efforts by providers to try to move toward this type of legislation in other states, as has been attempted unsuccessfully in Pennsylvania over the past few years.Īdopted in Georgia in 2010, the Patient Access to Eye Care Act is legislation written and advanced by theĪmerican Optometric Association (AOA). has yet to unfold, some industry observers feel that because there are laws with similar language in other states that it possibly could set a precedent for similar lawsuits elsewhere. 4, 2013ĭecision in the case of Spectera, Inc., v.
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While the full impact of the court’s Nov. Georgia’s Patient Access to Eye Care Act when the managed vision care company required independent providers to use Spectera’s lab network for eyeglasses and/or contact lenses. ATLANTA-In a decision that could set a precedent for other states with similar laws, the Georgia Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that Spectera violated
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