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Medicare pay cuts, once delayed, looming without Congressional action
An all-out mobilization of doctor and student advocates is needed to urge lawmakers to correct several rounds of Medicare pay cuts in 2022 and 2023 with the first cut expected in the coming weeks.
7 education highlights for Optometry's Meeting® 2022
Optometry’s Meeting® offers innovative courses for doctors of optometry, students and paraoptometrics—and registration is now open!
New ePoster format enhances participation, visibility of optometric research
Do you have unique clinical cases or optometric research? Submit your abstracts by Feb. 14 for the AOA’s newly reconfigured ePoster Session before and during Optometry’s Meeting® in Chicago.
APHA issues call for team approach to 'skyrocketing' diabetes cases
Recently published online, first-of-its-kind American Public Health Association public policy statement reflects the role that eye doctors, dentists, pharmacists and podiatrists can have in diabetes prevention and management.
Keeping the practice’s mental health top of mind
Unsurprisingly, our stress levels are at the highest point in decades. How can you help ease anxiety and promote mental health in your practice?
Eye Deserve More uses patient stories to reinforce the essential care doctors deliver
AOA members see the importance of comprehensive eye exams every day in their practices. But did you know that such exams can detect more than 270 serious health conditions? In 2021, the AOA launched a new platform to explain to the public who doctors of optometry are and the care they deliver in communities every day.
‘Oh, don’t you wanna go?’ Optometry’s Meeting® in sweet home, Chicago
Preregister now for the profession’s leading event, June 15-18, 2022, in Chicago, where world-class education, networking and business opportunities intersect one unforgettable experience.
Bipartisan bill to ban abusive policies of discount plans gets boost from policy expert report
Princeton, New Jersey-based Avalon Health Economics says plans’ mandated discounts for noncovered services and materials—and limits on laboratory freedom—harmfully distort the vision care market for patients and doctors of optometry. To fight back, the AOA is mobilizing its members and other national doctor groups to educate and inform Congress, now and in lead-up to in-person AOA on Capitol Hill.
A fast-paced 48 hours in round-the-clock AOA advocacy
AOA President calls advocacy a “privilege” to represent the profession and doctors of optometry, as a plethora of issues are tackled in 2021 and beyond.
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