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Stay updated with the latest information on threats to quality eye care in Minnesota.

Ophthalmology is more engaged than ever in advocating for the future of the profession: Record-setting attendance by residents and fellowship trainees; and record-setting contributions to OPHTHPAC and the Surgical Scope Fund.

The Academy supports the Early Detection of Vision Impairments for Children Act, a bipartisan initiative that would create the first federally funded program to address children’s vision and eye health.

Certain Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are extracting more than $50 billion in overpayments by exaggerating the severity of beneficiaries’ health conditions. Ophthalmologists are fighting back.

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The Academy’s model legislation to reduce topical drug waste passed the Arizona legislature. Similar bills iwere ntroduced in Pennsylvania and Texas. 

The new recommendations to Congress call for a single-year positive update to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.  

The advisory group has been raising concerns about the current Medicare payment system and discussing ways to address rising practice costs.  

Georgia House lawmakers passed a nonbinding resolution urging the state’s Departments of Education and Public Health to work together to establish vision and hearing screening programs for school-aged children.

There are more scope bills being considered than ever before, many allowing optometrists to perform surgery after a mere 32-hour training course.