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May 29 2012

Medicare issuing separate 10% EHR bonuses to HPSA practitioners

Healthcare, News, Organized Optometry / By Antonio Chirumbolo / 2 minutes of reading

From the American Optometric Association: Medicare issuing separate 10% EHR bonuses to HPSA practitioners Health care practitioners who qualified for Medicare Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentives last year while practicing in federally recognized Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA) will be getting an additional bonus payment for their participation in the program – that is, if they …

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Dec 10 2009

Optometry Needs You!

Articles, Organized Optometry / By Matt Geller / 6 minutes of reading

To all you optometry students out there, here is a REALLY easy way to make a difference for the future of optometry, it will literally take you 2 minutes at most. All of those e-mail’s we have been getting from the AOA about health care reform have been urging us to contact congress by phone …

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Nov 25 2009

Cuts To Medicade Will Impact Vision Care

Articles, Organized Optometry / By Matt Geller / 4 minutes of reading

It is important that NYSOA members contact the legislators identified on the attached document to share their opposition to this proposal. This message is brought to you by the NYSOA and was forwarded to my SUNY Optometry E-mail and is NOT an original article by OptometryStudents.com If you are a pre-optometry student applying to optometry …

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Nov 9 2009

Universal Health Care & Optometry – Key Moments In The Debate

Articles, Healthcare / By Matt Geller / 5 minutes of reading

This important status update regarding the effects of universal health care on optometry is brought to you by Randolph E. Brooks, O.D. the president of the AOA. He was kind enough to send us SUNY students this message and now here it is for you all. I hope you can all review the article and …

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Oct 15 2009

Universal Health Care and Optometry- Update

Articles, Healthcare / By Matt Geller / 3 minutes of reading

Hey everyone out there. This message has been forwarded to my SUNY Optometry school e-mail and it is regarding how optometry students can act to make sure that Optometry has a positive and secure future. Sorry for the quick message. Midterms are keeping me way to busy to post at the moment, but this is …

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