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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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Optometry Plans Unprecedented Surgical Scope Grab In 2019 – Your Help Is Needed

JAN 08, 2019 in Scope of Practice

With as many as 28 states threatened, all Academy members are urged to bolster our resources to help turn back optometry’s overreach.

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Trump Administration Lays Out Sweeping Views on Reducing Health Care Spending

DEC 06, 2018 in Scope of Practice

States are getting the greenlight to pursue a host of new policies – including changes to scope-of-practice restrictions and Certificate of Need laws – of which our profession must be wary.

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Pennsylvania Ophthalmologists Kill Aggressive Optometric Surgery Legislation

NOV 21, 2018 in Scope of Practice

Patient safety remains the law of the land as state lawmakers decline to extend primary medical-care responsibilities and surgical privileges to optometrists.

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Views 273

Ophthalmologist Ascends to California Medical Association Presidency

NOV 08, 2018 in Scope of Practice

We’ve got a major ally in our biggest optometric surgery battlegrounds who can speak for our profession

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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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Views 396

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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 10 to 13 in Washington, DC.
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