852 IAC 1-15-2 Notification to board of practice location

Sec. 2. (a) A practitioner has a duty and responsibility to notify the board within thirty (30) days of the establishment or discontinuation of an office for the practice of optometry. An office will be considered any location where the practitioner regularly provides optometric services or any location where the optometrist's name is presented to the public as practicing optometry. (b) A practitioner may practice optometry in a hospital, health maintenance organization, licensed health care facility, public health clinic, clinic affiliated with a school of optometry, or as a consultant to industry or educational facilities without the display of a professional sign, provided the practitioner has notified the board within thirty (30) days of initiating services. (c) A practitioner may provide optometric services outside their office or other location reported to the board whenever the best interests of a patient require services which cannot be delivered at a previously designated location. When services are regularly delivered at the same location, it must be reported to the board as a practice location.