Ophthalmologists who participated in Medicare's 2010 Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) received the second-highest amount in incentive payment dollars of any specialty, according to a recent CMS report.

This week marks the beginning of Healthy Vision Month, which the Academy celebrates each May in partnership with the National Eye Institute and the National Eye Health Education Program.

This retrospective review included 58 patients who underwent vitrectomy and membrane peeling for idiopathic macular epiretinal membrane.

Despite the recent exhortation of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) to “build  practice efficiency with highly-trained medical assistants” (written communication, March 15, 2012), the ideal solution for ophthalmology to the manpower crisis facing our specialty requires the physician extender to have a provider number so he/she could bill Medicare, Medicaid and other entities – while under the ophthalmologists supervision; the latter is interpreted in the statues to allow responsible supervision and control, and this requires, “except in cases of emergency, the easy availability or