Regulatory/Legislative News

I retired from active consulting Jan. 1, 2016, but I do not think I will ever retire from being concerned about eye care, eye care patients, my optometric colleagues and the importance of excellent medical records. Indeed, Medicare would not have been repaid to the tune of $5.6 billion in 2016 if providers totally understood the importance of keeping good records.

Certain positions, including optometrists, are exempt from the federal hiring freeze enacted under the Trump Administration, according to Robert D. Snyder, acting secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The Enact Enhanced Access to Eye Care Act, amending the scope of practice in optometry allowing for certain laser and surgical procedures in North Carolina was filed February 2, 2017, by House Rep. Justin Burr.

The Coalition for Patient Vision Care Safety and Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Inc. recommended sales quantity limits and email communication over robocalls in comments submitted in response to the Proposed Rule Concerning the Contact Lens Rule, which was issued by the FTC in December 2016.

From international law firm Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP comes a timely column that provides views on current regulatory and legislative topics that weigh on the minds of today’s physicians and health care executives.

A number of my colleagues have asked me why we should be interested in the health care reform debate.

KOLOA, Hawaii — One can be sure that some provisions of the Affordable Care Act will be repealed and some will be replaced – that is the state of politics, according to a speaker here.

KOLOA, Hawaii — After 25 years of attending and presenting at Hawaiian Eye, renowned speaker Alan E. Reider, JD, MPH, announced his retirement here at the conclusion of his Hawaiian Eye 2017 presentation on compliance.

Federal funding of science, immigration reform and relations with the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries are three ways in which the administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump could affect CV translational research, according to an editorial by the editor of JACC: Basic to Translational Science.

The members of the U.S. Senate took the first step Thursday morning to repeal the Affordable Care Act by approving a budget blueprint by a vote of 51-48.