Rule 30-2901-1.1 - DefinitionsThe following words and terms, when used in these Rules and Regulations, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
(a) Open Records Act - Mississippi Public Record Act of 1983.(b) NBEO - National Board of Examiners in Optometry(c) Counsel - Attorney General's Office(d) Executive Director - The person or entity hired to provide management services for the Board.(e) Diagnostic Optometrist - An optometrist certified to use diagnostic pharmaceutical agents.(f) Therapeutic Optometrist - An optometrist certified to use therapeutic pharmaceutical agents.(g) Primary Eye Care Procedures Optometrist (PEP) - An optometrist certified to perform primary eye care procedures. PEP certified optometrists will have a PEP designation added to their license number.(h) Primary Eye Care Procedures - Primary eye care procedures are procedures that employ incision, injection, laser, radiation, cautery, cryotherapy, vaporization, ultrasound, chelation, ionization, intense light, UV, radio frequency and other surgical methods, chemical reactions, or instruments, not otherwise excluded within this statue. Exclusions defined within this statue include:
(a). Intraocular surgery, not including YAG laser posterior capsulotomy.(b). Intraocular injection(c). Intraocular transplantation(d). Intraocular aspiration or the ordering of for diagnostic purposes(e). Intraocular penetration or the ordering of for diagnostic purposes(f). Use of medications that must be injected or implanted into the eye or orbit(g). Biopsy of any part of the globe or the ordering of for diagnostic purposes(h). Injection of dermal fillers and substances such as hyaluronic acid and poly-L-lactic acid for cosmetic purposes.(i). Removal of foreign bodies that involve eyelid margins, lacrimal drainage structures, or extending deeper than the orbicularis muscle.(j). Reconstructive surgery of the eyelid.(i) Authorized Ophthalmic Surgery Procedures - primary eye care procedures that may require a board approved credentialing process and shall include reporting of outcomes of every procedure performed as required by the board.(j) Administration is the delivery of pharmaceutical agents that includes topical, oral, nasal, inhalation, implantation, intramuscular, infiltrative, intralesional, intravenous, subcutaneous, sublingual, subconjunctival and any delivery not excluded within this statute.(k) Monitored anesthesia care and general anesthesia are not Board approved.30 Miss. Code. R. 2901-1.1
Miss Code Ann. § 73-19-1; § 73-19-101; § 73-19-151 section 157