Regulatory/Legislative News

From international law firm Arnold & Porter 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.

Nearly 16 million Americans are living with vision impairment that is undiagnosed or untreated because eye and vision health lags in priority in the United States, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

LAS VEGAS – Contact lens legislation is the single biggest challenge the optometric profession has had in the last 3 to 5 years and will have in the next 3 to 5 years, Scot Morris, OD, said here at Vision Expo West.

COPENHAGEN — At Euretina 2016, José Carlos Pastor, MD, talks about the case of cytotoxic batches of a perfluorocarbon liquid that led to blindness in 117 patients in Spain last year. The case casts doubts on the validity of regulations and international standards for the testing of medical devices.

It seems like just yesterday when there was a phone booth on every street corner. Of course if it wasn’t a phone booth, it was a mailbox.

The American Optometric Association submitted a letter to CMS requesting that Medicare’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System be simplified and more flexible so it becomes a tool for quality improvement rather than a regulatory hurdle for doctors.

From international law firm Arnold & Porter 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.

The Federal Trade Commission has sued 1-800 CONTACTS, “alleging that it unlawfully orchestrated and now maintains a web of anticompetitive agreements with rival online contact lens sellers that suppress competition in certain online search advertising auctions,” the FTC announced in a press release.

The Coalition for Patient Vision Care Safety took its message to the Federal Trade Commission Aug. 3 during the FTC’s review of the public comments on the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act of 2004.

From international law firm Arnold & Porter 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.