Patient Care

Explaining how different examinations are billed by insurance to patients can make a difference in patient care.

Kristin Adams, OD, and Colleen Onstad, MSW, LICSW, detailed the importance of recognizing the signs of domestic violence in patients during Optometry's Meeting 2025.

A recent $1 million gift will aid in broadening access to emotional support services, including social workers, peer connections, and multimedia content include videos and podcasts.

Anthem will also be required to conduct quarterly self-audits beginning in July of this year in order to document the correction of the issues stated in the report.

The Vision Lab Choice Act of 2025, S 1716 was introduced to the US Senate floor on May 12.

Bryce St Clair, OD, MPH, authors the June edition of the Cultural Responsiveness Blog, and urges doctors to consider cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds when caring for patients.

The cross sector initiative that intends to drive a shift from reactive to proactive health care by leveraging ocular data through the means of oculomics.

The award marks the company's fifth consecutive recognition from the program.

Knowing the truths concerning patient adherence and history and visual field tests can make a difference in care quality.

STAR-GLOBAL is an extension trial of the initial EU clinical trials investigating the long term safety and efficacy of MINIject in patients with up to 5 years of follow up.

How to establish a seamless contact lens service for your patient while maximizing efficiency, stellar patient experience, and continued practice profitability

The starry faculty has a galaxy of symposia planned for May 4, 2025.

The survey results included 11,412 patients in the general population and 964 health care providers.

The award recognizes CooperVision for its support of educational opportunities for students, including the sponsorship of a new eye care clinic.

CLI Visionaries provide professional perspectives on best practices and highlight the EASY (Eyes, Awareness, Safety & You) Way program in the series.

Researchers assessed the costs to patients and caregivers in Germany, Bulgaria and the US.

The new service will work to reduce waiting times for glaucoma assessments, monitoring, and treatment.

The retrospective cohort study included adults with POAG from 12 tertiary-care health systems participating in the SOURCE Ophthalmology Big Data consortium in the US.

Results from a recent study led researchers to advise clinicians of the potential for dystrophies that mimic age-related macular degeneration and other atrophic macular pathologies to be incorrectly diagnosed, which can impact treatment.

The new mobile eye care clinic is 40 feet long and is fully equipped with an eye examination room, an eyewear dispensary stocked with frames, and a finishing lab for the production of prescription glasses.

The survey for the report was conducted from December 13, 2024 to January 10, 2025 with a nationally representative samples of 1500 US adults and 150 eye care providers from The Vision Council’s Research Advisory Panel.

The Preservative Freedom Coalition’s recent Glaucoma Patient Experience survey also found a need to better communication between patients and eye care providers.

The study, published in JAMA Network Open, found that only 8.2% of patients who were referred and received a glaucoma evaluation were diagnosed with glaucoma.

VisionSpring, Eye Care Foundation, and Deckers Brands will provide screenings to 4600 factory workers over 18 days and will take place at 2 factories.

Charissa Lee, OD, MBA, FAAO; Ryan Corte, OD; Roxanne Achong-Coan OD, FAAO, FIAOMC, FSLS, Dip CCLRT; and Nishan Pressley, OD; give their insights on distinguishing the best candidates for contact lens wear.

Charissa Lee, OD, MBA, FAAO; Ryan Corte, OD; Roxanne Achong-Coan OD, FAAO, FIAOMC, FSLS, Dip CCLRT; and Nishan Pressley, OD; give their insights on recent Contact Lens Institute research on contact lens purchase factors and Google searches.

A first-of-a-kind cross-sectional study at an outpatient clinic in China found that patients diagnosed with allergic conjunctivitis possess very little knowledge about the disease.

Ben Young, OD, FAAO, sat down with Optometry Times for an exclusive interview on how he got to where he is today at the New England College of Optometry.

HB 1352 will take effect in August 2025 with additional provisions to roll out based on plan renewals, contract changes, or by January 1, 2026.

Khanh Hoang, OD, details how comanagement relationships can be streamlined for the benefit of the patient.