WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — Attendees of Hawaiian Eye chose Donna M. McCune, CCS-P, COE, CPMA, as Sunday’s Speaker of the Day.Sunday’s program included The Changing Ophthalmic Practice Environment, chaired by Kevin J. Corcoran, COE, CPC, FNAO, and Candace S. Simerson, COE, CMPE, CAHCM, and The Year’s Most Intriguing Papers from the 2015 Journal, Ophthalmology, chaired by George B. Bartley, MD.
WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — Physicians need to “keep running on the treadmill” with regard to existing CMS quality programs, until the new, combined Merit-Based Incentive Payment System begins in 2019, a speaker here said. Under the Medicare Access and CHIP Authorization Act of 2015, PQRS, Meaningful Use and the Value-Based Payment Modifier programs will be merged into the new MIPS program.
WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — A pathologist who fought all odds to survive a deadly blizzard on Mount Everest in 1996 shares his story of survival during the keynote lecture at the Hawaiian Eye. In May 1996, Beck Weathers traveled to Mount Everest with a group of climbers who were guided by Rob Hall of Adventure Consultants. On the night of May 10, 1996, a blizzard descended upon the group and forced the climbers to fight for their lives to stay warm in the freezing cold.
WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — Kevin J. Corcoran, COE, CPC, FNAO, highlighted new changes in the ophthalmic practice environment in 2016 here at Hawaiian Eye. In 2015, there was a ruling for corneal tissue reimbursement that stated those using corneal tissue as a patch graft would receive a reimbursement separate from facility fee, he said.
WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — Intense pulsed light therapy may be used as a non-ablative laser therapy for dry eye, according to a speaker here.Speaking at the Oculoplastics Symposium: Principles of Aesthetic Oculoplastics at Hawaiian Eye, Roger A. Dailey, MD, told colleagues that, although intense pulsed light is not a laser, it still uses some of the same principles of selective photothermolysis.
WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — At the Hawaiian Eye meeting here, Wendy W. Lee, MD, discussed three options for the removal of malignant eyelid lesions.“It’s important for you to formulate an idea in your mind when you see these eyelid lesions. Does it look benign or does it look malignant? That’s your first goal,”Leesaid during theOculoplastics Symposium: Principles ofFunctional Eyelid Surgery.