Every optometrist licensed to practice in this state under title 63, chapter 8, has the right to become a participating optometrist in the vision service plan corporation operating in the county in which the optometrist resides or practices. A vision service plan corporation shall impose no restrictions on the optometrists who treat its subscribers as to methods of diagnosis or treatment. The private optometrist-patient relationship shall be maintained, and a subscriber shall at all times have free choice of any optometrist who is a participating optometrist in the corporation and who agrees to accept a particular beneficiary as a patient.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 56-31-107
Participating optometrists — Right to become — Method of diagnosis and treatment unrestricted — Private optometrist-patient relationship — Maintenance
Known as the Vision Service Plan Law
The act spans §§ 56-31-101 to 56-31-131 (31 sections).
Acts 1969, ch. 118, § 8; T.C.A., § 56-3707.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.