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For the third straight year, New Hampshire ophthalmologists have successfully defended safe eye surgery.

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October 30, 2024
Academy Urges Insurers to Suspend Step Therapy Due to Potential Avastin Supply Issues

The Academy urged large commercial insurers and Medicare Advantage plans to suspend anti-VEGF step therapy requirements in response to Pine Pharmaceuticals discontinuation of repackaged Avastin (bevacizumab).

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May 18, 2022
Academy Shares Your Step Therapy Stories With CMS to Urge Policy Reversal

The Academy met with the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services and other physician and patient groups to ask the agency to reinstate a step therapy prohibition for Medicare Advantage plans for Part B drugs.