The Academy is assisting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local health agencies with an ongoing public health investigation. The FDA has received reports of fungal endophthalmitis in patients who were given Brilliant Blue G (BBG) during eye surgeries. Clinicians in several states have reported adverse events. The BBG was supplied by Franck's Compounding Lab in Ocala, Fla. The pharmacy issued a recall of all lots of BBG on March 9
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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.
In late March the FDA issued a notice of recall regrding triamcinolone acetonide from Franck's Lab. The recall is related to fungal issue with one lot of triamcinolone acetonide P.F. 80mg/ml and instituted a recall.
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.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in collaboration with state and local health departments, are continuing an investigation into cases of fungal endophthalmitis following use of two different products from Franck's Compounding Pharmacy in Ocala, Fla.
This retrospective review included 58 patients who underwent vitrectomy and membrane peeling for idiopathic macular epiretinal membrane.
Below are the benefits and discount programs available to FSO members.
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
From the American Academy of Ophthalmology
From the American Academy of Ophthalmology