Here are 14 things ophthalmologists want their patients to know about maintaining their eye health, according a May 12 article on the American Medical Association website:

Ophthalmology management organization OCLI Vision has acquired McMurray, Pa.-based Crossroads Eye Care Associates. 

Ten private-equity backed giants control over 300 ophthalmology practices nationwide, having a major hand in the industry. Here are the 10 largest private equity companies in ophthalmology: 

Jason Slakter, MD, an ophthalmologist at Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of New York in New York City, has become the first physician to administer Syfovre, a treatment for geographic atrophy in patients with dry age-related macular degeneration. 

A new senate bill in Illinois would prohibit vision care plans from requiring a provider to provide services at a fee set by the vision care plan unless the services are in-network and covered under the plan.

Nvision Eye Centers has acquired San Antonio-based South Texas Ambulatory Surgery Center, located in the South Texas Medical Center. 

Members of the Florida House of Representatives voted May 4 to pass a bill that would prevent healthcare providers who are not medical doctors or osteopathic physicians from referring to themselves as "physicians" in interactions with patients and advertisements.

OCLI Vision, an ophthalmology practice chain backed by management services organization Spectrum Vision Partners, has acquired three practices in New York, expanding its reach in the Northeast. 

Bausch + Lomb released its financial report for the first quarter of 2023.

Artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT correctly answered less than half of practice questions from ophthalmology board certification examinations, according to a study published April 27 in JAMA Ophthalmology.

Conjunctivitis, commonly known as pink eye, may be a symptom of the new strain of COVID-19, The Charlotte Observer reported May 2. 

Electronic health records and practice management solution ModMed is celebrating 10 years of providing services for ophthalmology practices. 

Madison, Tenn.-based SouthEast Eye Specialists, SouthEast Eye Surgery Center and the Eye Surgery Center of Chattanooga will pay $17 million to resolve alleged violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute. 

Medical Consulting Group, a consulting company that has developed over 105 ophthalmology ASCs nationwide, has inked a merger agreement with ophthalmology billing, coding and reimbursement provider Corcoran Consulting Group. 

The mean annual salary for ophthalmologists is $265,450, according to April 25 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational employment statistics survey. 

Paul Koch, MD, the former owner of a chain of Rhode Island ophthalmology practices, has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle kickback allegations, according to an April 20 Department of Justice release.

The University of California San Diego Shiley Eye Institute has broken ground on a five-story, 100,000-square-foot vision research center that will house labs, clinical trial operations and administrative and educational spaces. 

Ophthalmologist Bruce Ochsner, MD, founder of the Ochsner Eye Surgery Center in Wichita, Kan., died April 11 at 83, according to an obituary published in the Wichita Eagle.

Eye health company Bausch + Lomb has expanded its executive team, adding Bob Bailey as its executive vice president and chief legal officer and Andrew Stewart as its president of ophthalmic pharmaceuticals. 

Biopharmaceutical ophthalmologic company Visus Therapeutics has added former Novartis leader Jehan Tamboowalla as its senior vice president of business development and marketing.