Advocacy News

Responding to members’ request for assistance, the Academy is fighting policies that assign lower reimbursement for certain high-level services.

The heads of national veterans service organizations urged congressional action to protect veterans from unsafe surgical policies in two hearings this week.

We acted following member reports of claim denials for dual administration of geographic atrophy and anti-vascular endothelial growth factor drugs.

It starts with making connections. Our new Surgical Scope Fund Committee Chair K. David Epley, MD, calls on every ophthalmologist to introduce themselves to their state lawmakers.

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.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will apply the automatic extreme and uncontrollable circumstances (EUC) policy to eligible physicians in Federal Emergency Management Agency-designated counties in California.

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.

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.

A bipartisan group of our congressional champions has introduced new legislation to reverse the 2025 Medicare pay cuts and add 2% update to the conversion factor for the rest of the year. Help us build support for this much needed update.