APS urges Congress to take action against updates to Contact Lens Rule
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The Health Care Alliance for Patient Safety has requested that Congress protect patients from the Federal Trade Commission’s recent additions to the Contact Lens Rule.
The FTC posted the rule for public inspection on Aug. 14 and published it in the Federal Register on Aug. 18.
Previously, the advocacy group announced that it had partnered with members of Congress in a bipartisan effort to call for a delay of the FTC amendment, which included the use of prescription verification robocalls.
“Since the Federal Trade Commission released the text of the final Contact Lens Rule in June, both Democratic and Republican lawmakers in both the House and Senate have taken action in an attempt to halt the rule’s implementation due to concerns that it could lead to adverse health outcomes for patients and overly burden doctors, especially during the ongoing pandemic,” Deanna Alexander, OD, Health Care Alliance for Patient Safety (APS) chairperson, said in a press release.
“The Federal Trade Commission’s publication of the rule disregards the significant bipartisan, bicameral requests from Congress for the FTC to delay the rule,” she continued. “Therefore, we urge Congress to take action to protect patients from the troubling aspects of this rule.”
Members of Congress have taken significant action since the release of the rule in June to prevent implementation of the amendments, including the cosponsoring of a proposed bill, the Contact Lens Verification Modernization Act, from House members Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) and Michael C. Rush, MD (R-Texas).
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