Advocacy News

Stay updated with the latest information on threats to safe eye surgery in New Mexico. All New Mexico ophthalmologists are urged to contact your state representative using the Academy’s grassroots system.

Lee Snyder, MD, discusses her time chairing the Academy's Surgical Scope Fund Committee and why all ophthalmologists should support the fund's campaign to protect surgery by surgeons.

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.

New bills were introduced in Minnesota and Ohio that would expand optometrists' ability to prescribe ophthalmic medications to patients and to perform scalpel eyelid and laser eye surgery.

The Montana House of Representatives voted to pass HB 218 that will permit optometrist to perform scalpel eyelid and laser eye surgery including YAG capsulotomy, selective laser trabeculoplasty, and peripheral iridotomy.

See how the Surgical Scope Fund helped successfully defend safe eye surgery in a year of record setting scope challenges at the state level, winning in 10 of 14 states so far.

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

Academy members William Clifford, MD, of Kansas, and Steven Magie, MD, of Arkansas, won their campaigns for state office.

Following sustained advocacy engagement with the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services Secretary Valerie Arkoosh and department staff, the Pennsylvania Academy of Ophthalmology won higher payment rates for numerous pediatric ophthalmology service codes in the state’s Medicaid program.

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.