[atourgates]

Beyond any clinical reason that your eye clinic might want to know your blood pressure (your vascular system is pretty important to your vision) - they may have been incentivized by the CMS to track blood pressure via the MIPS program which ties provider payments to specific documentation and screening measures.

AKA - the government might pay your eye clinic more if they screen you for high blood pressure. (Among other things).

[dhosek]

This was the US under Bush II. I’m pretty sure there wasn’t any government payment to Lenscrafters involved.

[cestith]

I’d like to think it has to do more with hypertensive retinopathy, but...