# Optometrists as “Acceptable Medical Sources” To Establish a Medically Determinable Impairment
> **US Social Security Administration** · Final rules. · Published 2007-03-01 · Effective 2007-04-02 · 72 FR 9239
## Document
- **Document number:** E7-3577
- **Category:** ssa-disability
- **Agency:** US Social Security Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 72 FR 9239
- **CFR reference:** 20 CFR 404
- **Publication date:** 2007-03-01
- **Effective date:** 2007-04-02
- **Docket:** Docket No. SSA-2006-0085
## Abstract

We are revising the Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability regulations regarding sources of evidence for establishing a medically determinable impairment under titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act (the Act). The revised regulations expand the situations in which we consider licensed optometrists to be "acceptable medical sources."

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2007/03/01/E7-3577/optometrists-as-acceptable-medical-sources-to-establish-a-medically-determinable-impairment)
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