The Vision Lab Choice Act amends federal health insurance regulations to give optometrists more autonomy in vision care plans. The bill limits initial agreements between optometrists and insurance plans to two-year terms (renewable for additional two-year periods), and prohibits insurers from restricting which laboratories or suppliers optometrists can use when providing services to patients. The legislation applies to group health plans and individual or group health insurance coverage that offer vision benefits. The Secretary of Health and Human Services is required to notify states annually of their authority to enforce these provisions and will monitor state compliance; states that fail to enforce the rules will be treated as substantially non-compliant with federal oversight requirements. The bill gives states flexibility to apply their own vision insurance laws if those laws conflict with the federal requirements.
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