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We Appreciate your Membership in CAEPS

CAEPS Saves You Money

• CAEPS  successfully LOBBIED for changes to the law that let your technicians give dilating and anesthetic drops so you don’t have to, representing around $10-15,000 per year in “gained” productivity and efficiency.
  
  
• CAEPS WORKED with Noridian Healthcare Solutions, the Medicare Administrative Contractor for our Jurisdiction, to successfully achieve improved reimbursements for:
• iStent (approximately $120 more per procedure, statewide average), 
• Xen45 Gel Stent (restored a 90-day global period, that ensures a minimum $760 fee, statewide average, including post-op visits, vs. approximately $270 plus post-op visitsthat might not be billable because of awkward co-pays for each visit).
  
• Repackaged Avastin for intravitreal use ($13/dose) related to increased costs resulting from needed change from TB syringes to Norm-Vasc ones.
• CAEPS BLOCKED a Medicare requirement to do a visual function questionnaire on every cataract surgery patient, something that would have tied up your staff for about 15 minutes per case.
  
  
• CAEPS successfully AIDED countless practices in correcting claims so they were paid.
  
  

CAEPS Fights Policies that Hurt Your Practice and Patients

• CAEPS STOPPED a policy referencing “20/40 or worse” visual acuity (making about 20% of routine cases “questionable.”)
  
  
• CAEPS PREVENTED legislation allowing optometrists to perform intravitreal injections and laser and eyelid surgery with trivial training (on the order of HOURS).
  
  
• CAEPS MONITORS and ADDRESSES countless regulations and bills, and maintains relationships with legislators to ensure ophthalmology has a voice.

CAEPS Offers Other Benefits