---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 441.30"
title: "42"
number: "441.30"
heading: "Optometric services."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/441.30"
---

# §441.30. Optometric services.


The plan must provide for payment of optometric services as physician services, whether furnished by an optometrist or a physician, if—

- (a) The plan does not provide for payment for services provided by an optometrist, except for eligibility determinations under §§ [435.531](/cfr/42/435.531.md) and [436.531](/cfr/42/436.531.md) of this subchapter, but did provide for those services at an earlier period; and
- (b) The plan specifically provides that physicians' services include services an optometrist is legally authorized to perform.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302.

### Source

Source: 43 FR 45229, Sept. 29, 1978, unless otherwise noted.