Highlights of changes that will commonly affect ophthalmic practices this year, including additions, modifications and deletions.

Several factors need to be considered when deciding where to store your patients’ data.

At his clinic, Ian MacDonald, MD, has seen firsthand how the power of personalized medicine can influence patient treatment.

Is your optical dispensary enrolled properly as a Durable Medical Equipment supplier? Your DME supplier status with Medicare can be a complex issue.

The office of retina specialist Ingrid E.

While initial directives from the Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services seemed to indicate that physicians who provided eyeglasses and contact lenses to their postop cataract patients were exempt from the requirements of a surety bond, the issue took a new turn last fall.

Ophthalmic surgeons are an exceptionally bright, well-educated group of individuals.

The ravages of time can be insidious, slowly robbing us of abilities and dulling our edge to the point where, according to one study, it's even a challenge to memorize something and walk at the same time.

Though it's true that the principles of ethics inform and affect every aspect of medical practice, some situations pose tougher ethical questions than others, such as genetic testing for family planning or dealing with marketing salvos from pharmaceutical sales representatives.