OPTOMETRY LAW PRACTICE EXAAM TIPS QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Ophthalmic lens RX requirements - ✔✔OD Name
OD address
OD license
OD signature
Patient name
Dioptric Power of lens
issue date
expiration date
✔✔Office notice posted for consumers must include what information - ✔✔1.
requirement of releasing corrective lens RX after exam
2. complaints can be directed to SBO
3. optometry is a SBO regulated practice
✔✔CE requirements for TPA OD's - ✔✔50 hours for license renewal
35 on tx/dx/management of ocular or systemic disease
up to two credits for a full day board meeting (SBO)
up to 4 credits for CPR - red cross
use OE tracker or else another process is required
?up to 8 hr for ethics
✔✔CE requirements for NON TPA OD - ✔✔20 credits per year
Patient care management up to 4 hours, practice (business) management excluded
✔✔Minimum liability insurance for corporation - ✔✔$50 000 x number of OD's
✔✔Naming a corporation - ✔✔Must have "corp" or corporation in title or Inc
✔✔SBO must notify applicant in what time frame if requirements have been met for
license or fictitious name - ✔✔120 days
✔✔Timeframe to request rescoring of CA law exam - ✔✔75 days
✔✔Response to board inquiry about cirminal history - ✔✔30 days
✔✔Fingerprint requiremetns - ✔✔retain receipt of taking fingerprints for 3 years
✔✔License renewal date - ✔✔expires at midnight on last day of licensee's birth month
after first issue and then every two years
✔✔Branch office app fee - ✔✔$75
, ✔✔fictious permit renewal - ✔✔$50
✔✔TPA cert fee - ✔✔$25
✔✔POG cert fee - ✔✔$35
✔✔D&I cert fee - ✔✔$25
✔✔Exam fee - ✔✔$275
✔✔biannual certificate renewal - ✔✔$425
✔✔Late fee for certificate renewal - ✔✔$50
✔✔When renting a commercial mercantile what are the rules for the OD? - ✔✔Records
owned by OD
Practice owned and controlled by OD
Space is seperate from occupants
Signs are seperate and indicate optometrist
✔✔Rules for change of ownership - ✔✔successor may use the predecessor's name for
no more than 2 years in small font. Acquisition includes permission to use active patient
records
✔✔Advertising failures - ✔✔Misdemeanors
✔✔Certificate of registration must be posted in principle place of practice: - ✔✔1. owned
location (not branch office)
2. if employed at one office, that office
3. More than one office- post numbered statement of licensure in each
✔✔Mobile optometry facilities - ✔✔itinerary must be submitted within 30 days notice
✔✔Professional inefficiency - ✔✔fail to use instruments to conduct exam
fail to carefully record findings
✔✔License expiry - ✔✔midnight last day of birth month then every two years if not
renewed
✔✔May expired certificates be renewed? - ✔✔Within 3 years, pay all fines, fees,
submitt proof of CE for past 2 years
✔✔May suspended license be renewed? - ✔✔Yes, but doesn't mean you can practice
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Ophthalmic lens RX requirements - ✔✔OD Name
OD address
OD license
OD signature
Patient name
Dioptric Power of lens
issue date
expiration date
✔✔Office notice posted for consumers must include what information - ✔✔1.
requirement of releasing corrective lens RX after exam
2. complaints can be directed to SBO
3. optometry is a SBO regulated practice
✔✔CE requirements for TPA OD's - ✔✔50 hours for license renewal
35 on tx/dx/management of ocular or systemic disease
up to two credits for a full day board meeting (SBO)
up to 4 credits for CPR - red cross
use OE tracker or else another process is required
?up to 8 hr for ethics
✔✔CE requirements for NON TPA OD - ✔✔20 credits per year
Patient care management up to 4 hours, practice (business) management excluded
✔✔Minimum liability insurance for corporation - ✔✔$50 000 x number of OD's
✔✔Naming a corporation - ✔✔Must have "corp" or corporation in title or Inc
✔✔SBO must notify applicant in what time frame if requirements have been met for
license or fictitious name - ✔✔120 days
✔✔Timeframe to request rescoring of CA law exam - ✔✔75 days
✔✔Response to board inquiry about cirminal history - ✔✔30 days
✔✔Fingerprint requiremetns - ✔✔retain receipt of taking fingerprints for 3 years
✔✔License renewal date - ✔✔expires at midnight on last day of licensee's birth month
after first issue and then every two years
✔✔Branch office app fee - ✔✔$75
, ✔✔fictious permit renewal - ✔✔$50
✔✔TPA cert fee - ✔✔$25
✔✔POG cert fee - ✔✔$35
✔✔D&I cert fee - ✔✔$25
✔✔Exam fee - ✔✔$275
✔✔biannual certificate renewal - ✔✔$425
✔✔Late fee for certificate renewal - ✔✔$50
✔✔When renting a commercial mercantile what are the rules for the OD? - ✔✔Records
owned by OD
Practice owned and controlled by OD
Space is seperate from occupants
Signs are seperate and indicate optometrist
✔✔Rules for change of ownership - ✔✔successor may use the predecessor's name for
no more than 2 years in small font. Acquisition includes permission to use active patient
records
✔✔Advertising failures - ✔✔Misdemeanors
✔✔Certificate of registration must be posted in principle place of practice: - ✔✔1. owned
location (not branch office)
2. if employed at one office, that office
3. More than one office- post numbered statement of licensure in each
✔✔Mobile optometry facilities - ✔✔itinerary must be submitted within 30 days notice
✔✔Professional inefficiency - ✔✔fail to use instruments to conduct exam
fail to carefully record findings
✔✔License expiry - ✔✔midnight last day of birth month then every two years if not
renewed
✔✔May expired certificates be renewed? - ✔✔Within 3 years, pay all fines, fees,
submitt proof of CE for past 2 years
✔✔May suspended license be renewed? - ✔✔Yes, but doesn't mean you can practice
