Advocacy News

Applications must be submitted on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Quality Payment Program webpage by 8 p.m. ET on Dec. 31, 2025.

The Academy’s Health Policy Committee consulted with Academy staff on many of the top advocacy issues arising from the January 2025 Federal Secretariat meeting.

Responding to members’ request for assistance, the Academy is fighting policies that assign lower reimbursement for certain high-level services.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will apply the automatic extreme and uncontrollable circumstances (EUC) policy to eligible physicians in Federal Emergency Management Agency-designated counties in California.

Academy leaders have identified physician payment reform, reducing practice burdens, Medicare Advantage and Quality Performance Program issues, as well as military veterans’ eye care as some of our top federal advocacy priorities for 2025.

This new reporting option is available for voluntary reporting for the 2025 MIPS performance year/2027 payment year.

WPS accepted the Academy’s recommendation to correct its cataract surgery billing and coding article in response to denials of CPT 66982 billed with mature cataracts.

Noridian informed the Academy that a claims processing editing error caused denials and is working on a fix.

See how we are working to protect your ability to care for your patients.

The changes include an updated scoring methodology which could improve scores for many ophthalmologists starting with the 2024 performance year/2026 payment year.