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 Capitol Hill about optometry and pro-patient/pro-doctor legislation.

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.

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.

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.

How the AOA and its volunteers are supporting their colleagues fighting unreasonable requests, downcoding, and claim denials.

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.

AOA outside counsel delivers a cease-and-desist letter to VBM related to doctor-reported concerns of company business practices.

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.

What doctors of optometry need to know about the confidential potential settlement.

AOA doctor and student advocates work hard to ensure their U.S. House and Senate leaders understand optometry’s priorities as Congress advances a sweeping legislative package, seen by AOA as both an opportunity to secure pro-optometry policies and a potential threat to reimbursement and coverage of optometrist-provided care.