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WI Stat § 448.9785 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 448 - Medical practices.|448.9785 - Informed consent.

448.9785  Informed consent. Any physician assistant who treats a patient shall inform the patient about the availability of reasonable alternate medical modes of treatment and about the benefits and risks of these treatments. The reasonable physician assistant standard is the standard for informing a patient under this section. The reasonable physician assistant standard requires disclosure only of information that a reasonable physician assistant in the same or a similar medical specialty would know and disclose under the circumstances. The physician assistant's duty to inform the patient under this section does not require disclosure of any of the following: (1) Detailed technical information that in all probability a patient would not understand. (2) Risks apparent or known to the patient. (3) Extremely remote possibilities that might falsely or detrimentally alarm the patient. (4) Information in emergencies where failure to provide treatment would be more harmful to the patient than treatment. (5) Information in cases where the patient is incapable of consenting. (6) Information about alternate medical modes of treatment for any condition the physician assistant has not included in his or her diagnosis at the time the physician informs the patient.NOTE:  This section is created eff. 4-1-22 by 2021 Wis. Act 23.History: 2021 a. 23.
WI Stat § 448.979 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 448 - Medical practices.|448.979 - Penalties.

448.979  Penalties. Any person who violates this subchapter is subject to a fine not to exceed $10,000 or imprisonment not to exceed 9 months, or both.NOTE:  This section is created eff. 4-1-22 by 2021 Wis. Act 23.History: 2021 a. 23.
WI Stat § 448.9793 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 448 - Medical practices.|448.9793 - Injunction.

448.9793  Injunction. If it appears upon complaint to the board by any person or if it is known to the board that any person is violating this subchapter, or rules adopted by the board under this subchapter, the board or the attorney general may investigate and may, in addition to any other remedies, bring action in the name and on behalf of the state against any such person to enjoin such person from such violation. The attorney general shall represent the board in all proceedings.NOTE:  This section is created eff. 4-1-22 by 2021 Wis. Act 23.History: 2021 a. 23.
WI Stat § 448.9795 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 448 - Medical practices.|448.9795 - Duty to report.

448.9795  Duty to report. (1) A physician assistant who has reason to believe any of the following about another physician assistant shall promptly submit a written report to the board that includes facts relating to the conduct of the other physician assistant:(a) The other physician assistant is engaging or has engaged in acts that constitute a pattern of unprofessional conduct.(b) The other physician assistant is engaging or has engaged in an act that creates an immediate or continuing danger to one or more patients or to the public.(c) The other physician assistant is or may be medically incompetent.(d) The other physician assistant is or may be mentally or physically unable safely to engage in the practice of a physician assistant. (2) No physician assistant who reports to the board under sub. (1) may be held civilly or criminally liable or be found guilty of unprofessional conduct for reporting in good faith.NOTE:  This section is created eff. 4-1-22 by 2021 Wis. Act 23.History: 2021 a. 23.NOTE: Subch. IX is shown as renumbered from subch. VIII eff. 4-1-22 by 2021 Wis. Act 23.
WI Stat § 448.986 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 448 - Medical practices.|448.986 - Implementation of the physical therapy licensure compact.

448.986  Implementation of the physical therapy licensure compact. (1) In this section:(a) “Compact” means the physical therapy licensure compact under s. 448.985.(b) “Compact privilege” means a compact privilege, as defined in s. 448.985 (2) (d), that is granted under the compact to an individual to practice in this state.(c) “Examining board” means the physical therapy examining board. (2) The department may impose a fee for an individual to receive a compact privilege as provided in s. 448.985 (3) (d). (3) The examining board may, by rule, require an individual seeking a compact privilege to meet a jurisprudence requirement in accordance with s. 448.985 (4) (a) 7., if such a requirement is imposed by the examining board under s. 448.54 in order to obtain a license under s. 448.53 or 448.535. (4) (a) An individual who holds a compact privilege shall comply with s. 440.03 (13) (am).(b) Subject to s. 448.985 and any rules promulgated thereunder, ss. 440.20 to 440.22 and the rules promulgated under s. 440.03 (1) shall apply to an individual who holds a compact privilege in the same manner that they apply to holders of licenses issued under subch. III.History:  2019 a. 100.
WI Stat § 449.01 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 449 - Optometry examining board.|449.01 - Definitions.

449.01  Definitions. (1) Optometry. (a) The practice of the profession of optometry is defined as:1. The employment of any optometric means, including topical ocular diagnostic pharmaceutical agents under s. 449.17, to determine the visual efficiency of the human visual system, including refractive and functional abilities, or to diagnose the presence of ocular disease or ocular manifestations of systemic disease and other departures from normal.2. The diagnosis and treatment of the refractive and functional ability of the visual system and enhancement of visual performance by any of the following:a. Prescribing, furnishing, fitting or employing ophthalmic lenses, contact lenses, frames, aids or prosthetic materials.b. Administering visual training, orthoptics, visual therapy or any other optometric means.c. Prescribing or administering drugs for ocular therapeutic purposes, dispensing contact lenses that deliver a therapeutic pharmaceutical agent under s. 449.18 (6) (am) 2. b., or removing superficial foreign bodies from the eye or an appendage to the eye under s. 449.18.3. Examining into the fact, condition or cause of ocular health or disease, or treating or rendering advice regarding a condition or cause of ocular health or disease, by any optometric means or instrumentality.4. Applying principles or techniques of optometric sciences in the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of a condition or cause of ocular health or disease.(b) Except as provided in par. (a), the practice of the profession of optometry does not include surgery or medical treatment. (2)  Dispensing opticians. A dispensing optician is one who practices optical dispensing. The practice of optical dispensing comprises the taking of necessary facial measurements and the processing, fitting and adjusting of mountings, frames, lenses and kindred products in the filling of prescriptions of duly licensed physicians or optometrists for ophthalmic lenses. Duplications, replacements or reproductions not requiring optometric service may be done without prescription. Nothing herein contained shall change the responsibility of physician to patient, or optometrist to patient. (4)  Examining board. In this chapter, “examining board" means optometry examining board.History:  1977 c. 83, 280; 1979 c. 32; 1989 a. 31; 1999 a. 85; 2009 a. 168.
WI Stat § 449.015 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 449 - Optometry examining board.|449.015 - Discrimination prohibited.

449.015  Discrimination prohibited. Any agency of the state, county, municipality or school district shall accept the optometric services of optometrists licensed under this chapter, on the same basis as those of any other person authorized by law to render optometric services. History:  1999 a. 85 s. 105.
WI Stat § 449.02 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 449 - Optometry examining board.|449.02 - Licenses; exemptions.

449.02  Licenses; exemptions. (1) No person shall practice optometry within the meaning of this chapter without a license to do so and a valid certificate of registration issued by the examining board, except that a dispensing optician need not be so licensed for the practice of optical dispensing. (2) This section shall not apply to physicians and surgeons duly licensed as such in Wisconsin nor shall this section apply to the sale of spectacles containing simple lenses of a plus power only at an established place of business incidental to other business conducted therein, without advertising other than price marking on the spectacles, if no attempt is made to test the eyes. The term “simple lens" shall not include bifocals. (3) This section does not apply to a person who practices optometry under the supervision of an optometrist licensed under this chapter. The examining board shall promulgate rules specifying the conditions for supervision required under this subsection.History:  2005 a. 297.An ophthalmic assistant performing functions within the definition of optometry delegated and supervised by an ophthalmologist is not engaged in the unlawful practice of optometry. A certified optometric technician who performs services within the definition of optometry delegated and supervised by a licensed optometrist is engaged in the unlicensed practice of optometry. 74 Atty. Gen. 146.
WI Stat § 449.03 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 449 - Optometry examining board.|449.03 - Enforcement.

449.03  Enforcement. (1) No rule made by the examining board shall expand the practice of optometry or affect the practice of dispensing opticians, nor shall the examining board enact rules which forbid the employment of an optometrist or declare such employment unprofessional conduct, or prohibit the operation of an optometric department by optometrists in a mercantile establishment. (2) The chairperson or the secretary of the examining board shall cause actions to be instituted for violations of this chapter. The district attorney of the county in which the offense has been committed shall promptly prosecute upon being informed thereof from any source.History:  1979 c. 162 s. 38 (10); 2005 a. 297; 2011 a. 257 s. 55.Under sub. (1), the board is prohibited from enacting rules that affect the practice of dispensing opticians or forbidding the employment by them of optometrists or declaring such employment unprofessional conduct. Feinberg v. Hasler, 63 Wis. 2d 268, 217 N.W.2d 334 (1974).
WI Stat § 449.04 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 449 - Optometry examining board.|449.04 - Examination and licensure.

449.04  Examination and licensure. (1) The examining board may grant a license to engage in the practice of optometry only to a person who satisfies all of the following conditions:(a) The person presents proof satisfactory to the examining board that, subject to ss. 111.321, 111.322, and 111.335, he or she does not have an arrest or conviction record.(b) The person has graduated from an accredited college of optometry approved and recognized by the examining board.(c) The person passes an examination approved or conducted by the examining board.(d) The person pays the fee specified in s. 440.05 (1). (2) The examination shall reasonably relate to the skills likely to be needed for an applicant to practice optometry in this state at the time of examination and shall seek to determine the applicant's preparedness to exercise such skills. The examination shall test knowledge regarding general and ocular pharmacology as it relates to optometry with particular emphasis on the use of topical ocular diagnostic pharmaceutical agents and therapeutic pharmaceutical agents, including the treatment of adverse reactions to such pharmaceutical agents, and knowledge regarding the removal of foreign bodies from an eye or from an appendage to the eye. The examination shall also test knowledge of state laws and administrative rules regarding the practice of optometry. The examining board may do any of the following:(a) Prepare, administer, and grade the examination.(b) Approve in whole or in part an examination prepared, administered, and graded by the national board of examiners in optometry or another examination provider approved by the examining board.(c) Approve and administer an examination prepared and graded by or under the direction of the national board of examiners in optometry or another examination provider approved by the examining board.History:  1977 c. 29, 418; 1991 a. 39; 2005 a. 297; 2013 a. 114 ss. 19, 20, 22, 23.
WI Stat § 449.055 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 449 - Optometry examining board.|449.055 - Endorsement.

449.055  Endorsement. The examining board may issue a license and certificate of registration to a person who is licensed in good standing to practice optometry in another state that has substantially similar requirements if all of the following conditions are satisfied: (1) The person has passed an examination in pathology and practical optometry. (2) The person passes an examination that tests knowledge of state and federal laws and administrative rules and regulations regarding the practice of optometry. (3) The person pays the fee specified in s. 440.05 (1). (4) The person submits satisfactory evidence that the person has actually practiced in the other state for 5 years. (5) The person satisfies the requirements under s. 449.04 (1) (a) and (b).  (6) The person has completed the study specified in ss. 449.17 (1m) (b) and 449.18 (2) (a) 2. and passes the examinations specified in ss. 449.17 (1m) (c) and 449.18 (2) (a) 3.History:  2005 a. 297, ss. 16 to 19; 2013 a. 114.
WI Stat § 449.06 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 449 - Optometry examining board.|449.06 - Renewal; continuing education.

449.06  Renewal; continuing education. (1) Persons practicing optometry shall, on or before the applicable renewal date specified under s. 440.08 (2) (a), register with the department, pay the applicable renewal fee determined by the department under s. 440.03 (9) (a), and provide evidence satisfactory to the examining board that he or she has complied with the rules promulgated under sub. (2m). (2m) The examining board shall promulgate rules requiring a person who is issued a license to practice optometry to complete, during the 2-year period immediately preceding the renewal date specified in s. 440.08 (2) (a), not less than 30 hours of continuing education. The rules shall include requirements that apply only to optometrists who are allowed to use topical ocular diagnostic pharmaceutical agents under s. 449.17 or who are allowed to use therapeutic pharmaceutical agents or remove foreign bodies from an eye or from an appendage to the eye under s. 449.18.History:  1977 c. 29; 1991 a. 39, 207; 2005 a. 297; 2007 a. 20.
WI Stat § 449.065 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 449 - Optometry examining board.|449.065 - Display of registration.

449.065  Display of registration. Every practicing optometrist shall display in a conspicuous place, at the entrance of his or her office, the name of the person so practicing and shall keep the certificate of registration issued by the examining board conspicuously displayed in that place of business so that it can easily be seen and read.History:  2005 a. 297, s. 22.
WI Stat § 449.07 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 449 - Optometry examining board.|449.07 - Denial, limitation, suspension, revocation, reprimand.

449.07  Denial, limitation, suspension, revocation, reprimand. (1) The examining board, by order, may reprimand and may deny, limit, suspend or revoke any license or certificate of registration if the licensee or registrant:(a) Obtained the license or certificate through error or fraud;(b) Is grossly incompetent;(c) Is habitually drunk or addicted to the use of habit-forming drugs;(d) Has been convicted in a court of competent jurisdiction, either within or without this state, of any violation of any law governing the practice of optometry or of any felony, subject to ss. 111.321, 111.322 and 111.335, a certified copy of the record of conviction to be conclusive evidence of such conviction;(e) Has obtained or sought to obtain anything of value by fraudulent representation in the practice of optometry;(f) Is guilty of immoral or unprofessional conduct;(fm) Violates s. 449.17, 449.18 or 449.19;(g) Continued practice, knowingly having an infectious or contagious disease; or(h) If the applicant or registrant maintains a professional connection or association with any other person continuing to violate this chapter after 10 days' notice in writing by the examining board. (3) Upon application and satisfactory proof that the cause of such revocation or suspension no longer exists, the examining board may reinstate any license or registration by it suspended or revoked. This subsection does not apply to a license or registration that is suspended under s. 440.13 (2) (c) or that is revoked under s. 440.12.History:  1975 c. 39, 199; 1977 c. 29, 125, 280; 1977 c. 418 ss. 851, 853; 1979 c. 162; 1981 c. 334 s. 25 (1); 1983 a. 289; 1989 a. 31; 1991 a. 39; 1997 a. 191, 237.
WI Stat § 449.08 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 449 - Optometry examining board.|449.08 - Unprofessional conduct.

449.08  Unprofessional conduct. (1) Unprofessional conduct includes without limitation because of enumeration:(a) Any conduct of a character likely to deceive or defraud the public;(b) Loaning of an optometric license or certificate to anyone;(d) Splitting or dividing any fee for optometric service with any person, except an associate licensed optometrist; or(e) Engaging in conduct unbecoming a person licensed to practice. (2) Unprofessional advertising includes advertising professional superiority or the performance of professional services in a superior manner.History:  1977 c. 362; 1979 c. 337; 2005 a. 297.
WI Stat § 449.09 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 449 - Optometry examining board.|449.09 - Investigations.

449.09  Investigations. Subject to the rules promulgated under s. 440.03 (1), the examining board may make investigations and conduct hearings in regard to the conduct of any licensed optometrist or any person who, it has reason to believe, is acting or has acted in such capacity within the state. The person complained against may proceed to review such action of the examining board under ch. 227.History:  1977 c. 418.
WI Stat § 449.10 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 449 - Optometry examining board.|449.10 - Advertising.

449.10  Advertising. No rule of the examining board, unless intended to regulate false or misleading advertising, may restrict advertising on products and nonvariable services. In this section, “nonvariable services" means services for which a fee can be objectively determined prior to the time the services are rendered.History:  1977 c. 362.
WI Stat § 449.11 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 449 - Optometry examining board.|449.11 - Penalties.

449.11  Penalties. Any person not lawfully authorized to practice optometry, who shall practice optometry or shall hold himself or herself out as a practitioner thereof, or who shall impersonate another practitioner or who shall violate any provisions of this chapter, or any rule or regulation made under authority thereof, shall be punished for the first offense by a fine not less than $50 nor more than $200, or by imprisonment for not more than 3 months, or both. And for a subsequent offense by a fine not less than $200 nor more than $500 or by imprisonment for not less than 3 nor more than 6 months, or both.History:  1979 c. 162 s. 38 (9).
WI Stat § 449.12 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 449 - Optometry examining board.|449.12 - Interpretation.

449.12  Interpretation. This chapter is passed in the interests of public health, safety and welfare and its provisions shall be liberally construed to carry out its objects and purposes.
WI Stat § 449.19 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 449 - Optometry examining board.|449.19 - Referral to other health care professionals.

449.19  Referral to other health care professionals. If, during the course of examining a person, an optometrist determines the existence of a pathological condition requiring treatment outside the scope of the practice of optometry, the optometrist shall so advise the person and shall refer the person to an appropriate health care professional, as defined in s. 180.1901 (1m), for further evaluation.History:  1977 c. 280; 1989 a. 31; 2005 a. 297.
WI Stat § 449.20 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 449 - Optometry examining board.|449.20 - Civil immunity.

449.20  Civil immunity. No optometrist shall be liable for any civil damages for either of the following: (1) Reporting in good faith to the department of transportation under s. 146.82 (3) a patient's name and other information relevant to the vision of the patient which in the optometrist's judgment impairs the patient's ability to exercise reasonable and ordinary control over a motor vehicle. (2) In good faith, not reporting to the department of transportation under s. 146.82 (3) a patient's name and other information relevant to the vision of the patient which in the optometrist's judgment does not impair the patient's ability to exercise reasonable and ordinary control over a motor vehicle.History:  1987 a. 215.
WI Stat § 449.25 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 449 - Optometry examining board.|449.25 - Informed consent.

449.25  Informed consent. (1) Any optometrist who treats a patient shall inform the patient about the availability of reasonable alternate modes of treatment and about the benefits and risks of these treatments. The reasonable optometrist standard is the standard for informing a patient under this section. The reasonable optometrist standard requires disclosure only of information that a reasonable optometrist would know and disclose under the circumstances. The optometrist's duty to inform the patient under this section does not require disclosure of any of the following:(a) Detailed technical information that in all probability a patient would not understand.(b) Risks apparent or known to the patient.(c) Extremely remote possibilities that might falsely or detrimentally alarm the patient.(d) Information in emergencies where failure to provide treatment would be more harmful to the patient than treatment.(e) Information in cases where the patient is incapable of consenting.(f) Information about alternate modes of treatment for any condition the optometrist has not included in his or her diagnosis at the time the optometrist informs the patient. (2) The examining board shall promulgate rules implementing sub. (1). History:  2013 a. 345.
WI Stat § 450.033 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 450 - Pharmacy examining board.|450.033 - Services delegated by physician.

450.033  Services delegated by physician. A pharmacist may perform any patient care service delegated to the pharmacist by a physician, as defined in s. 448.01 (5). History:  2013 a. 294.
WI Stat § 450.04 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 450 - Pharmacy examining board.|450.04 - Examinations.

450.04  Examinations. (1) Examinations for licensure as a pharmacist shall be designed to determine whether an applicant is competent to engage in the practice of pharmacy. (2) Examinations shall be conducted at least semiannually. (3) Every candidate for examination for licensure as a pharmacist shall submit an application on a form provided by the department and pay the fee specified in s. 440.05 (1) at least 30 days before the date of examination.History:  1985 a. 146; 1991 a. 39; 1997 a. 27; 1997 a. 237 s. 722u; 2001 a. 16; 2013 a. 114.Post-examination review with applicants discussed. 68 Atty. Gen. 48.