Kansas Board of
Examiners In Optometry

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Kansas Board
of Examiners
in Optometry
3109 W 6th St, Ste B
Lawrence KS 66049

785-832-9986-phone
785-832-9986-fax

Email Address: 
kssbeo@ksmail.state.ks.us

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Licensed Optometrists

This license verification list is provided by the Kansas Board of Examiners in Optometry as a convenience to its licensees and other interested parties. They are not the official publications of Kansas Board of Examiners in Optometry. Official verification can be obtained in written form directly from the Kansas Board of Examiners in Optometry office. 

Verify a Lincense

A list of optometrists with a Kansas license may be obtained by submitting a Release of Information form to the Board office. This list can be furnished in three formats:
(1) a list of approximately eight pages of names and addresses, or (2) mailing labels sorted by zip code, or (3) a diskette of names and addresses. Please make your check payable to the KS State Board of Examiners in Optometry when ordering. If you would like information other than mailing addresses included on the list, such as original date of licensure, please indicate that on the form. Not all information contained in the database can be included for reasons of practicality.

Release of Information Form (MSWord Document)

License Numbering System

In March, 1999, House Bill 2117 was signed by Governor Bill Graves. Therapeutic licensees can prescribe oral antibacterial drugs, oral antiviral drugs, oral antihistamines and oral analgesic drugs for ocular conditions. Oral steroids and oral antiglaucoma agents for ocular conditions must be prescribed in consultation with an ophthalmologist.

Any license number lower than 1132 was originally issued as a No Pharmaceutical Agents (NPA) license and must have a -1 suffix for Diagnostic Pharmaceutical Agent (DPA) privileges, a -2 suffix for Therapeutic Pharmaceutical (TPA) privileges, or a -3 for Glaucoma Pharmaceutical (GPA) privileges.

Any license number between 1132 and 1273 was originally issued as a Diagnostic Pharmaceutical Agents (DPA) license and must have a -2 suffix for Therapeutic Pharmaceutical Agent (TPA) privileges or a -3 for Glaucoma Pharmaceutical (GPA) privileges.

Numbers between 1274 and 1542 were originally issued as a Therapeutic license and must have a -3 for Glaucoma Pharmaceutical privileges. New licenses issued since 1999, beginning with 1543, were issued with glaucoma treatment privileges. There is only one very rare exception: If a licensee has received his license in Kansas by reciprocity, and he was licensed at only the Diagnostic Pharmaceutical Agent (DPA) level in his original home state, he may have a license number higher than 1274 with a -1 suffix.

Disciplinary Action

Persons wishing to obtain information about disciplinary actions for licensed optometrists may contact the board office. This information may be requested by phone, fax, mail, or email. Use the Open Records Request Form at this site, or the form can be mailed at your request. No list of disciplinary action exists, so information will be provided on a name-by-name basis.