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 ...

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 ...

Optometrists in the Department of Veterans Affairs, as of this year, are paid on par with physicians — between $124,308 and ...

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, ...

Pay rates for doctors of optometry working in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are finally on par with physicians ...

"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 ...

While optometrists play an important role as part of the eye care team, they lack the proper level of education, training and ...