Spotlight on Standard 14 – Record Keeping and Billing

Standard 14 describes how an optician is to maintain accurate, understandable, complete, confidential, and timely client and financial records in accordance with COBC’s bylaws and applicable legislative and regulatory requirements. To support the application of this standard, COBC has developed additional resources that opticians can use in their work: Record Keeping Checklist: Eyeglasses Record Keeping Checklist: Contact Lenses Case Study #1 Record keeping for …

New Standards of Practice

COBC is pleased to share the new Standards of Practice for BC opticians! These standards are enforced as of June 1, 2022. Standards of Practice Over the coming months, we will be showcasing a standard each month in our newsletter. We will provide case studies and scenarios to demonstrate how that standard might be operationalized in a real-life practice environment, and how grey …