During the first year of mandatory reporting under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, optometrists accepted cash, cash equivalents or in-kind payments surpassing $18.2 million, according to Medscape ...

President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill adding optometry to the physician pay scale as part of the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . On Dec. 16, the House passed S141, a reform bill that would include optometry in the physician pay scale, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule includes a 2.5% physician pay increase that will benefit most U.S.

"As we’re having more of our mid-level practitioners out there, people don’t know who is treating them. So, it wasn’t geared at all specifically for ophthalmology or optometrist, it’s more in the ...

An optometrist is an eye doctor capable of examining the eyes for vision defects, signs of injury, ocular conditions, and problems with general eye health. Optometrists are primary healthcare ...

Optometrists and ophthalmologists are licensed eye doctors, but they are in distinct professions. An optometrist holds a Doctor of Optometry (OD) degree, while an ophthalmologist is a medical doctor ...

This past November, a patient asked optometrist Kaitlin Soracco to remove a bulge of skin on her eyelid. Such skin tags can be excised right there in the office using procedures Soracco studied and ...

Fortuna Optometry was the host of the monthly Fortuna Chamber of Commerce mixer, held on Sept. 17. Special guests included Dr. Alan French, who recently retired after 50 years of service, and SoHum ...