Fundus photos are not covered by Medicare and commercial insurance carriers unless ordered to document pathology such as diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, choroidal nevi, or vein or artery occlusion. Does a screening fundus photo …
Click here to view the Cover Story to this Point/Counter.To the question “is intraoperative OCT necessary now or will it be necessary later,” my answer is definitely yes. We need OCT now because there is no better way of visualizing the vitreoretinal i…
One of my earliest columns on dry eye disease shared the sad news that each and every one of you is a red eye doctor. Yes, even you, esteemed Dr. Retina, are a red eye doctor, at least if you care about the things that your patient cares about. Well, I…
Wikipedia defines telemedicine as the use of telecommunications to provide clinical health care from a distance. And yes, there is under the heading of telemedicine a section devoted to teleophthalmology.As I was thinking about this again, I decided to…
More than half of the world’s population is now online. According to 2018 data, the number of unique mobile subscribers around the world has surpassed 5 billion. North America and Europe still have the highest rate of internet penetration, but Southern…
The 5-year results of the DRCR.net Protocol S study support the use of ranibizumab or panretinal photocoagulation as viable treatments for proliferative diabetic retinopathy.The Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network evaluated 394 study eyes wi…