Optometry

• Meeting News Coverage

• Medicare physician fee schedule to cut cataract surgery payment 13.6%

• Ocular Surgery News U.S. Edition, December 25, 2012
• CHICAGO — The 2013 Medicare physician fee schedule includes a 13.6% reduction in reimbursement for cataract surgery, an ophthalmology advocate...More »

• Meeting News Coverage

• Cataract surgery alone may reduce IOP

• Ocular Surgery News U.S. Edition, December 25, 2012
• CHICAGO — Cataract surgery on its own is the most successful method of managing IOP, according to a speaker here.
  Steven L. Mansberger, MD, MPH,...More »

• Business News

• Alcon introduces LenSx SoftFit patient interface

• November 9, 2012
• Alcon’s new LenSx SoftFit patient interface, a proprietary soft contact lens technology that enables the natural curvature of the cornea to...More »

• Meeting News Coverage

• LIVE BLOG RECAP: Ophthalmology Innovation Summit

• November 8, 2012
• Ocular Surgery News attended the Ophthalmology Innovation Summit on Thursday in Chicago. Click to view our live blog of the entire day's...More »

• In the Journals

• Smaller lens softening grid reduces effective phaco time

• November 7, 2012
• Femtosecond laser lens fragmentation with a smaller lens softening grid significantly reduced effective phacoemulsification time, according to a...More »

• In the Journals

• Intracameral corticosteroid does not increase risk of glaucoma after infantile cataract surgery

• Ocular Surgery News Europe Edition, January 2013
• Use of adjunctive intracameral preservative-free dexamethasone did not increase the risk of glaucoma after infantile cataract surgery, a study...More »

• Meeting News Coverage

• SLT followed by phaco in open angle glaucoma patients safe, cost effective

• November 1, 2012
• PHOENIX – Selective laser trabeculoplasty followed by clear cornea phacoemulsification cataract extraction may be a safer and more cost effective...More »

• Meeting News Coverage

• New developments for cataract, corneal surgeries improve outcomes

• Primary Care Optometry News, December 2012
• PHOENIX – A new technology available to surgeons is “moving cataract surgery into the realm of refractive surgery,” according to a...More »

• Meeting News Coverage

• Loteprednol gel effectively resolves pain, flare, cells after cataract surgery

• Primary Care Optometry News, December 2012
• PHOENIX – Study results showed that the recently approved loteprednol etabonate gel successfully treated ocular inflammation and pain in...More »

• In the Journals

• Axial length plays role in myopic shift of foldable acrylic IOLs after sulcus fixation

• Ocular Surgery News U.S. Edition, February 10, 2013
• Surgeons should consider axial length when determining IOL power for sulcus fixation because it can play a role in myopic shift, a study found.
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