Each year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's ICD-10 Coordination Committee works with stakeholders to revise and update the code set. The new ICD-10 codes go into effect on Oct. 1.

Honoring optometric staff this Paraoptometric Week, which drives recognition of paraoptometry as a profession that hinges on the strength of paraoptometric members as well as the support of doctors of optometry and other care providers.

E-cigarette use—vaping—once touted as a safer alternative to cigarettes, is now under scrutiny after several deaths, while a leading company received a federal reprimand. Find out what optometry needs to know when counseling patients.

What would you do if a patient arrived for an appointment at your optometric practice with a service animal? What if the animal is there for emotional support? A new ethics case study addresses potential legal and ethical issues.

The only formal observance dedicated to honor optometric practice staff is Sept. 17-21.

The AOA applauds an FDA-proposed rule that would require cigarette packaging to include new warnings, color graphics depicting the negative health consequences of smoking, including blindness.

Binocular rivalry considered in identifying non-verbal, neural marker for autism.

September is Life Insurance Awareness Month, reminding people to plan for the unthinkable. AOAExcel® offers that peace of mind through group term and individual term life insurance for AOA members.

Optometry Cares®—The AOA Foundation awarded 17 Healthy Eyes Healthy Children grants, totaling $77,500, to initiatives bolstering awareness and access to children’s eye care services.

Starting Jan. 1, 2020, doctors must use new Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers instead of Health Insurance Claims Numbers on claims submission and eligibility transactions.