- LV-Beyond the Magnifying Glass: How New Technologies Are Helping People with Visual Impairment?
- LV-Bringing Low Vision To Your Practice
- LV-Do you practice Eyechiatry?: The psychology of vision loss
- LV-Low Vision Coding and Billing 2023 - Lessons Learned
- LV-Low Vision Rehabilitation Resources for the Pediatric Population
- LV-Serving Those with Vision Impairment and Coding/Reimbursement for These Encounters: The Vision Rehabilitation Forum
- LV-Why Adding Low Vision Makes Professional and Financial Sense: Debunking the 4 Myths of Low Vision
LV-Incorporating Vision Rehabilitation into a Primary Care Optometric Practice: Practical Suggestions to Make It Feasible
Description:
Have you ever considered how to address the unmet visual goals of your patients with mild vision impairment in your primary care optometric practice? This course will describe in a very practical manner how to incorporate vision rehabilitation for those with mild visual impairment into an optometric primary care practice. Differences between a typical primary care and vision rehabilitation examination from case history through coding will be discussed. Functional vision testing will be explained along with approximate cost of tests and how or if testing could be delegated. Level of vision loss that could be managed in a primary care office versus referred to a vision rehabilitation provider will be analyzed. Basic formulas that will guide the practitioner to select tentative lenses and/or devices will be reviewed as well as case examples provided. Types of lighting and filters to address patients' goals will be discussed. Many of the lenses and filters that will be suggested you may already have in your practice. Sources to obtain a basic set of devices, additional filters and additional lenses including approximate cost will be listed. Basic coding and billing for services will be explained and resources recommended. Protocol for dispensing of prescribed devices, lens and/or filters and assessment of prognosis will be explained.
Course Code:
AOA219-LV
Speaker(s):
Janis Winters, O.D.
jwinters@ico.edu
Tracy Matchinski, O.D.
tmatchin@ico.edu
Credits:
2
AOA Expiration Date:
3/3/2025
How to avert an eye care crisis
A noted author and lecturer is sounding the alarm over the growing gap between the demand for eye care services and the declining number of ophthalmologists.
What happened to the FTC’s noncompete ban?
The federal rule would have prevented noncompete arrangements, common in physician employment agreements. But rule enforcement is on hold while courts review.
3 reasons to read AOA’s newest clinical practice guideline
WATCH the chair of the AOA’s Evidence-based Optometry Committee offer recommendations and clinical notes from Care of the Patient with Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma, First Edition.