Contact Lens Rule Modernization Act introduced in the U.S. Senate
FTC rule set to take effect in October.
‘Recovery to renaissance’: Optometry’s advocates fight to advance profession
The FTC’s Contact Lens Rule, COVID-19 pandemic response and vision plan concerns headline the advocacy priorities that doctors nationwide shared with Congress in a consequential session.
Championing paraoptometrics
The AOA continues to create opportunities for paraoptometrics to be all they can be—readying them for the effects of scope expansion and empowering them as grassroots advocates for the profession of optometry. And for the [...]
Optometry’s premier advocacy event, Sept. 9-10, mobilizes doctors around AOA priorities
In firsts, AOA on Capitol Hill 2020 will be virtual and include advocacy-minded doctors, optometry students and paraoptometrics. The registration deadline is Sept. 4.
AOA doctors warn FTC of potential adverse impact of new amendment
The AOA and doctors are acting quickly to enlist federal legislators to join the growing mass of voices asserting concerns regarding the new amendment to the Contact Lens Rule announced by the FTC.
Appropriate use of modifier 25
Some doctors of optometry are billing claims with modifiers 24 and 25 at a higher rate than other eye care providers.