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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="11-402" title_number="11" title_name="Optometrists" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Miscellaneous Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>If, while providing optometric services to a patient, an optometrist or diagnostically certified optometrist detects or diagnoses an active eye pathology which the optometrist is not licensed or certified to treat under § 11-404 or § 11-404.2 of this subtitle, the optometrist shall refer the patient to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>An ophthalmologist or a therapeutically certified optometrist, as appropriate;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The patient’s physician;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A physician if required under a managed care contract; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A hospital emergency room or ambulatory surgical center if necessary.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>If, while providing optometric services to a patient, a therapeutically certified optometrist diagnoses an active eye pathology that the optometrist is not certified to treat under § 11-404.2 of this subtitle, the optometrist shall refer the patient to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>An ophthalmologist;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The patient’s physician;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A physician if required under a managed care contract; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A hospital emergency room if necessary.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
