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Online eye exams spark legal battle over health care access

Summary by KevinMD.com
Brick-and-mortar stores must deal with online competition. Even health clinics face disruption from telemedicine. Yet optometrists have special protection in South Carolina. When a telehealth company invented a safe and effective way for doctors to renew vision prescriptions remotely, political insiders rallied in Columbia to ban the service in South Carolina. Now, nine years later, Read more… Online eye exams spark legal battle over health care…
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KevinMD.com broke the news in on Friday, July 11, 2025.
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