Advocacy News

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.  

The chances of a Medicare fix in the funding bill are dimming, but the Academy and physicians in Congress will continue to push for an urgent solution.

The House of Representatives plans to vote on legislation that would fund the government for the rest of 2025 but ignores the Medicare cuts that took effect on Jan. 1.

The Academy’s Health Policy Committee consulted with Academy staff on many of the top advocacy issues arising from the January 2025 Federal Secretariat meeting.