Practice Management News

Blogger Agustin L. Gonzalez, OD, FAAO, said patients who are seeing 20/20 with no signs or symptoms of disease often ask why they need an eye exam.

President Donald Trump on Thursday announced two proposals reshaping how the government pays for drugs under Medicare Part B, including allowing Medicare to determine a drug’s price based on its cost in other countries, and altering the way physicians are reimbursed for prescribing treatments.

ORLANDO, Fla. — A session presented at Psych Congress 2018 educated health care professionals about the risk for burnout in the health care setting, factors contributing to this risk, strategies for addressing burnout and tools for regular assessment to prevent burnout in the future.

Uprise by VisionWeb, a management and health records system, is integrating with Glimpse, a health care analytics provider, to give eye care professionals an online dashboard that measures business statistics and could improve profitability.

SLACK Incorporated, a Wyanoke Group Company, is pleased to announce Matthew J. Holland as Chief Commercial Officer. Holland will oversee print, digital and custom sales operations for Healio.com and all SLACK periodicals.

The AOA is speaking out on standards of education for optometric degree programs, resulting from a concerning report on graduation rates from the National Board of Examiners in Optometry and Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry, and a trend in proposed schools of optometry.

Opternative Inc. announced its new ability to route a patient’s online vision test results to a web portal.

The average premium for the second lowest cost silver health insurance plans — the one used to determine final premium tax credits — will drop by a “historical” 1.5% for the first-time since the implementation of the federally-facilitated Exchange in 2014, according to CMS.

Several times throughout European history, the law set limits on what medical services patients could be billed for and some clinicians could not bill for services at all or sue to collect fees, lawyers Mark A. Hall and Carl E. Schneider wrote in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, who added that such laws were never enacted in the United States.

I have just returned from Vision Expo West. This meeting occurs each fall in Las Vegas and is the sister meeting to Vision Expo East held in New York each spring.