Advocacy News

A bipartisan group of our congressional champions has introduced new legislation to reverse the 2025 Medicare pay cuts and add 2% update to the conversion factor for the rest of the year. Help us build support for this much needed update.

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.

The congressionally mandated advisory commission’s unanimous vote to recommend a single-year positive update to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule connected to the projected increase in the Medicare Economic Index bolsters our position as we push Congress to address the Medicare 2025 pay cuts that went into effect on Jan. 1.  

Congress has recessed and left Washington, D.C., for the year without addressing the impending cuts to Medicare payment, set to take effect Jan. 1, 2025, putting patient’s access to sight-saving care at risk.

Despite our opposition, the finalized revisions to transfer of care modifier -54 requirements, are effective starting Jan. 1. See the updated requirements for billing this code.

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A Surgical Scope Fund Committee member and former OPHTHPAC committee member explains how your contributions drive the Academy’s advocacy efforts.

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

The bill would eliminate the nearly 3% cut proposed for 2025 and provide a one-year inflationary update. Urge your representatives to co-sponsor this critical legislation today.