Thursday, September 8, 2011

Kentucky MDs Strike Back at Blue-Grass-State's ODs

Today, the Kentucky Academy of Eye Physicians and Surgeons and the Kentucky Medical Association lodged a formal complaint with the Kentucky Board of Optometric Examiners (Board). The two organizations charge that the board and its task force violated Kentucky's Open Meetings Act as it developed regulations for a new eye surgery law that allows optometrists, who are not medical doctors, to perform delicate eye surgery. A task force (initially identified by the board as being appointed by the Governor) developed and the Board approved the regulation for the training they believe is needed for optometrists. They reportedly did so without following the tenets of the law, requiring open meetings in order for debate and discussion to be held. Although the Board stated in meeting minutes that the task force was appointed by the Governor, the Governor's office today denied ever appointing such a task force. Instead the Governor's office clarified that a task force was appointed by the Kentucky Optometric Association, but that no members of the task force were recommended or appointed by the Governor. These developments add further uncertainty to how the regulation was drafted.  Read more.

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