April 09, 2025
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The main dishes to remember:
- The inaugural meeting of the line of view will take place on April 24.
- Surgeons, practice administrators, industry leaders and payers will discuss key issues.
Things will be a bit different before the meeting of the American Cataract Society and this year refractive surgery in Los Angeles while Acrs will make its Sightline debut, a new day meeting.
The meeting of April 24 will bring together surgeons with practice administrators, industry representatives and payers to discuss the commercial aspects of ophthalmology. Steve Speares,, The executive director of the ASCRS, told Healio that there had always been a push and a traction between these parties, and Ascrs wanted everyone to speak.
“Ascrs is a well-positioned organization that can bring together all these stakeholders to have a frank and authentic conversation,” he said. “Everyone has their fundamental interests, but what can we do by sitting down and discussing them to assure us that we understand when there are opposite interests?” By understanding us better, how can we better provide care? ”
The theme of the inaugural meeting of the line of view is “exploring the payment routes beyond the coverage”, covering subjects such as diagnostic services and the construction of new payment categories. Speares said that he hoped to meet the way to give an overview of how ophthalmologists can reinvent their idea of Cover and refund.
“What we appreciate in ophthalmology is a very unique thing in American medicine in that we have the capacity of the decision of the double aspect to allow practices to provide patients with these non-covered advantages which give them a more satisfactory result,” he said. “We thought,” Why don’t we do this theme? ” »»
Speares said that the meeting is also focused on the categories in which ophthalmologists could look for new opportunities, including what he called “Imminent urgency of myopia. “”
“Is the management of myopia the activity of ophthalmology, or is it the activity of optometry?” Speares asked. “By having this discussion, let’s get various stakeholders at the table and let’s talk about the financial viability of an ophthalmology practice while it ventures in perhaps historically pure optometric waters.”
Speares hopes that all participants in Sightline kidnap a better understanding of each other and the challenges that their colleagues are confronted.
“We want to try to galvanize the main leaders of our ecosystem, the ophthalmic space, to really think about how we work together concerning the difficult problems awaiting us,” he said. “It was already a truly tumultuous year in terms of forecast where things go and how they will evolve. I think the ASCRS are located unique to really facilitate these conversations.”