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About 3,500 hospitals and 6,000 ambulatory surgical centers (ASC) that perform ophthalmic procedures would be affected by the proposed pay hike.  

We are working with Congress to fix Medicare’s broken payment system, highlighting the need to fix a physician payment program that fails to account for inflation and increasing practice costs.

HHS and MedPAC Reports Encourage Significant Changes to Part B Drug Payment The Academy is monitoring congressional reaction to these reports given that the recommendations would impact ophthalmologists.

Members reported to the Academy and ASOPRS that prior authorization requests have been denied for medically necessary injections into the brow and corrugator/procerus muscles to treat blepharospasm.

Florida and Georgia state societies joined the Academy in driving home the burdens of prior authorization.

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Cigna’s action means that providers will not have to submit medical records to comply with the insurer’s now-delayed policy.

The latest meeting to challenge payment of global period post-operative visits stressed the complexity of medical decision-making.

In a historic development, the majority of all eligible Medicare beneficiaries are now covered through a Medicare Advantage plan rather than a traditional fee-for-service Medicare program.

After sharing how this burdensome new policy will harm practices and patients, the insurer agreed to delay the requirement’s effective start date.