2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 12 - Professions and Occupations
Health Care
Article 40 - Optometrists
§ 12-40-117. Patient's exercise of free choice - release of patient records
(1) No person shall interfere with any patient's exercise of free choice in the selection of practitioners licensed to perform examinations for refractions and visual training or corrections within the field for which their respective licenses entitle them to practice.
(2) An optometrist shall release to a patient all medical records pursuant to section 25-1-802, C.R.S.
(3) The optometrist shall release to the patient, upon written request, a valid, written contact lens prescription at the time the optometrist would otherwise replace a contact lens without any additional preliminary examination or fitting. The board shall promulgate rules and regulations defining the components of a valid written contact lens prescription.
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