Advocacy News

The Academy and ASCRS have alerted CMS to potential errors with cataract cost measure scores and called for the agency to immediately remedy the issue. Check your MIPS score and file a targeted review, using Academy suggested language, if necessary.

With a growing number of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries enrolled in managed care arrangements, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General plans to scrutinize the programs to address waste, fraud and abuse.

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.

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.

Several of the Academy’s congressional champions and Visionary Award winners want you to tell them how Congress can protect physician payments.

In a 50-plus-page letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator, we urged the agency to engage with Congress to ensure appropriate physician reimbursement and reform of the Medicare payment system.

The Academy will raise scope concerns over CMS’ plan to create a combined new ophthalmology and optometry specialty set under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, a concept the agency unveiled in its 2023 proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.    

What Medicare reimbursement and physician payment reforms are on the horizon and how does Medicine break out and restore equity for physician payment?

We’re delivering a consistent message throughout our comments to CMS — let ophthalmologists do what we do best: deliver quality medical eye care