Advocacy News

Advocacy is built on relationships and OPHTHPAC, your Academy’s political action committee, is here to help you connect with your lawmakers.

New Jersey state Assemblyman and candidate for New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District, Herb Conaway, MD, issued a stark warning if Congress fails to address Medicare reimbursement cuts at the last OPHTHPAC speaker series event of the year.

Ophthalmology’s top champion in the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, MD, R-Iowa, urgently needs your support or she risks losing her reelection in what will prove to be a very close race.

The Academy outlined strong opposition to a House committee to reform the National Institutes of Health by highlighting importance of the National Eye Institute’s continued independence.  

We’re working to replace several key retiring physician members of Congress, but we need your help.

The proposed rule for 2025 Medicare payment rates for hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgical centers includes a 2.6% payment bump.

Responding to the Senate Finance committee’s ideas for reforming how physicians are paid by Medicare, the Academy offered detailed solutions that would both improve physician payment and protect patient access to specialty care medicine.

Urge your legislators to cosponsor and pass the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act today.

OPHTHPAC sees success in two state primaries with two OPHTHPAC®-supported physicians will advance to the general election in November.

On May 1, both the Senate Committee on Finance and House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee held hearings in which they demanded answers from the UnitedHealth Group CEO on what caused the Feb. 21 cyberattack and requested clarification on the loan terms for affected practices.