Sec. 352.201. DIRECTIONS FOR DISPENSING OPTICIAN

A physician's directions, instructions, or orders may be performed or a physician's prescription may be filled by a registered dispensing optician who is separate from and independent of the physician's office only if the directions, instructions, orders, or prescription is:

(1) in writing;

(2) of a scope and content and communicated to the dispensing optician in a form and manner that, in the physician's professional judgment, best serves the health, safety, and welfare of the physician's patient; and

(3) in a form and detail consistent with the particular dispensing optician's skill and knowledge.

Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.