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This bill amends the Insurance Code to regulate the relationship between managed care plans and optometrists, therapeutic optometrists, and ophthalmologists. Key provisions include: defining "managed care plan" to include vision benefit plans, prohibiting discrimination against these practitioners, requiring plans to include them as participating providers, and restricting plans from certain practices like requiring discounts on non-covered services or reimbursing practitioners differently based on their choice of suppliers or affiliations. The bill also prohibits plans from using certain practices like extrapolation in audits, and makes violations of this subchapter subject to enforcement under the state's unfair competition and deceptive practices laws.

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