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Prescription for change.(Consumers Union In Action)(contact-lens competition)
Get an eye exam anywhere in the country and federal law requires the examining doctor to give you your eyeglass prescription for the asking. That way, you can shop around for the best deal on frames and lenses. (Prices vary considerably; see our report on page 10.) But ask for your contact-lens prescription and you can wind up empty-handed.
That's because the law in many states doesn't require doctors to give it to you. Optometry groups say they fear that consumers with access to contact-lens prescriptions could forego the follow-up care needed by some people, such as first-time wearers.
Yet many of the nation's 34 million contact-lens users are longtime wearers who experience no eye trouble. They could possibly save hundreds of dollars if they were able to comparison shop for their lenses at stores, including mail-order businesses and discount chains. To that end, attorneys general in 32 states have filed a federal lawsuit that seeks to give consumers the opportunity to buy lenses from sources other than eye-care professionals. Consumers Union agrees that contact-lens wearers should have an easier time comparison shopping. That's one reason Consumers Union's Southwest Regional Office in Austin, Texas, was an early proponent of the Texas Contact Lens Prescription Act, which requires eye doctors to release contact-lens prescriptions if the consumer asks.
Now, though, there's evidence that some eye doctors are violating the intent of the act over issues such as follow-up visits. In a recent spot-check of 83 Texas optometrists, our Southwest Office found that ...
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