AOA on Capitol Hill 2025: Live News Updates
This is the official news page for AOA on Capitol Hill 2025. Here, you will find exclusive news coverage with live running news stories.
AOA exposes and challenges VBM lobby group’s latest attacks on optometry
Under pressure from the AOA, the lobbying arm of the vision benefit middleman (VBM) industry—the National Association of Vision Care Plans (NAVCP)—has been forced to acknowledge and withdraw inaccurate claims it had been making on [...]
5 myths—busted—about money, parties and politics in optometry’s advocacy
Your most common, controversial misperceptions about advocacy are explained as optometry’s advocates play myth-busters ahead of the AOA's single-largest federal advocacy event, AOA on Capitol Hill.
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.