Tags: AMGA | compensation | ophthalmologist | statistics

Here is the median compensation of ophthalmologists for 2005-2008, according to the AMGA 2009 Medical Group Compensation and Financial Survey.

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Tags: legislation | ophthalmologists | optometrists | scope of practice | West Virginia

Optometrists in West Virginia are hoping new bill is the state legislature will allow them to expand the scope of their practices, but ophthalmologists and other physician groups are arguing against the bills, according to a report in The Charleston Gazette.

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Tags: charges | ophthalmologist | ophthalmology | salary

1. There are approximately 23,861 ophthalmologists in the United States, according to the American Medical Association.

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Tags: Casey Eye Institute | Lower Columbia Eye Clinic | OHSU | partnership | Washington

Lower Columbia Eye Clinic in Longview, Wash., entered into a partnership with Oregon Health & Sciences University's Casey Eye Institute in Portland, Ore., on Dec. 30, according to a report in The Daily News.

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Tags: AAO | anti-VEGFs | glaucoma | IOLs | OCT | ophthalmologists

In a Dec. 2009 online survey, 51.9 percent of members of the American Academy of Ophthalmology cited anti-vascular endothelial growth factors for "wet" age-related macular degeneration as the most significant advancement in treatment over the past decade, according to an AAO news release.
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Tags: Glaucoma Awareness Month | Glaucoma Research Foundation | January

The Glaucoma Research Foundation has named January as Glaucoma Awareness Month, according to the GRF.
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Tags: eyes.com | ophthalmology | physicians | Web site

A new comprehensive Web site, www.eyes.com, dedicated to providing consumers with authoritative information needed to address eye care and eye health has been launched by a team of nationally distinguished board-certified ophthalmologists, according to a release from Indianapolis-based Price Vision Group.
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Q: If a doctor has ASC(A) order an IOL but then takes the IOL to ASC(B) for the surgery, can ASC(B) pay ASC(A) back the invoice price for the IOL without any Stark or billing issues?
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Tags: California | eye surgery | ophthalmology | Sierra View District Hospital

The decision by the Sierra View District Hospital in Porterville, Calif., to stop performing eye surgery in its ambulatory services department met with public outcry against the decision at a recent meeting with the hospital's Board of Directors, according to a report in The Porterville Recorder.
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Tags: Johns Hopkins | KKESH | Maryland | ophthalmology | partnership | Saudi Arabia

The Wilmer Eye Institute of Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Md., will collaborate in research, education and patient care with the King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, according to a Johns Hopkins news release.
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