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 . The 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule includes a 2.5% physician pay increase that will benefit most U.S.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

"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 ...