Get the inside scoop on the issues at play for AOA on Capitol Hill
The AOA’s single-largest annual advocacy event in Washington, D.C., connects optometry’s leaders with our nation’s leaders. Learn more about the issues and how you can join, Sept. 28-30.
Enough is enough
From statehouses to boardrooms, Main Street to Constitution Avenue, optometry’s advocates are championing the message that it’s time for a paradigm shift when it comes to vision benefit managers.
AOA advocacy efforts return more than $7.5 million to members
How the AOA and its volunteers are supporting their colleagues fighting unreasonable requests, downcoding, and claim denials.
Optometry gets results and more work to do in Washington, DC, tax bill battle
The AOA’s advocacy efforts yield gains on tax fairness and Medicare physician pay for doctors of optometry and successfully block harmful targeting of optometry and eye health and vision care.
Bolstered by courts, AOA demands VBM cease anti-doctor policies
AOA outside counsel delivers a cease-and-desist letter to VBM related to doctor-reported concerns of company business practices.
FTC issues new warnings on Contact Lens, Eyeglass rules
Regulators reminded prescribers that both federal rules, updated in recent years, require prescribers to provide patients with a copy of their prescription. The AOA offers compliance resources for practices to reference.