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Eye on Advocacy
News and views on the regulatory, legislative and political issues impacting ophthalmology in Washington, D.C., and around the United States. Articles featured in the Academy's weekly Washington Report Express email newsletter.
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Surgery and Medical Management at Risk in Landmark Pennsylvania Patient Safety Fight

SEP 27, 2018 in Scope of Practice, Patient Safety

If you live or practice in Pennsylvania, act now to prevent state lawmakers from lowering your state’s high surgical standards.

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HHS Secretary Urges States to Loosen Scope-of-Practice Restrictions to Decrease Health Care Costs

AUG 16, 2018 in Scope of Practice

This isn’t the solution to reducing costs; this could in fact become the path to endangering patients by reducing the standards of surgical care nationwide

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Dangerous Optometric Surgery Legislation Dead in Massachusetts

AUG 09, 2018 in Scope of Practice

Is there such a thing as “noninvasive surgery?” That’s a question we urged lawmakers to grapple with as we defeated another clever optometric attempt at gaining surgical privileges

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Pennsylvania Ophthalmologists Battle to Derail Optometric Scope Legislation

JUL 12, 2018 in Scope of Practice

Act now to prevent optometrists from putting our patients at risk during eyelid surgeries and injections.

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Ophthalmologists Claim Victories for High Surgical Standards in Iowa and Nebraska

APR 26, 2018 in Scope of Practice

Two distinct, yet equally effective campaigns for patient safety tamped out a brazen optometry grab for scope expansions

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Maryland Ophthalmologists Victorious in Derailing Optometry’s ‘Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’ Surgery Grab

APR 12, 2018 in Scope of Practice

We helped spell out what this proposal would’ve done: threaten patient safety as part of a troubling play to expand optometrists’ privileges

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Illinois Regulators Continue Push to Reclassify Eyelid Surgeries as “Advanced Optometric Procedures”

APR 05, 2018 in Scope of Practice

Objective local media coverage questions how such a move helps patients. Spoiler alert: It doesn’t.

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A Rose by Any Other Name: Illinois Could Label Eye Surgery as “Advanced Optometric Procedures”

FEB 08, 2018 in Scope of Practice

We’re certain that this latest scope expansion effort isn’t just an affront to high surgical standards everywhere – it’s plain illegal

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Ophthalmology Staves Off Scope-Expansion Attempt in Virginia

FEB 01, 2018 in Scope of Practice

A massive grassroots push by your colleagues won the day for our patients and high surgical standards

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Optometrists Seek Scalpel-Surgery Privileges in Virginia

JAN 18, 2018 in Scope of Practice

A vaguely worded bill is a dangerous, audacious start to the 2018 legislative season — but we’re already on the ground fighting to preserve surgery-by-surgeons

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Views 943

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Mid-Year Forum 2019 Renaissance Downtown, Washington, D.C.
This annual forum provides an opportunity for Academy members, leaders and leaders of allied ophthalmic organizations to identify and discuss critical issues facing ophthalmology. Mid-Year Forum will be held from April 10 to 13 in Washington, DC.
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This annual forum provides an opportunity for Academy members, leaders and leaders of allied ophthalmic organizations to identify and discuss critical issues facing ophthalmology. Mid-Year Forum will be held from April 22 to 25 in Washington, DC.
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Mid-Year Forum 2021 Renaissance Downtown, Washington, D.C.
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