-
Kugler Vision ASC shifts to telehealth for COVID-19, offers free supplies
The Kugler Vision refractive surgery center in Omaha, Neb., is postponing elective procedures and using telehealth for the next six weeks in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Perspective: Eyecare practices should prepare for more patients after COVID-19 pandemic
Sumit Garg, MD, an associate professor at the Department of Ophthalmology for the University of California-Irvine shared his thoughts on the coronavirus pandemic with Medscape. -
Private equity firm acquires two South Carolina eye practices
Eye Health America, a private equity firm formed in 2008, has acquired two South Carolina eyecare practices. -
EyeCare Partners keeping ASCs, clinics open for emergency surgeries
EyeCare Partners in St. Louis is adhering to CDC guidance on the coronavirus pandemic and keeping its ASCs and ophthalmology clinics open for emergencies and ceasing noncritical patient visits. -
Ophthalmology organization: Cease non-urgent care 'immediately'
With backing from more than a dozen other industry groups, the American Academy of Ophthalmology on March 18 urged ophthalmologists to immediately end all non-urgent care. -
Henry Ford Health System performing outpatient surgeries, testing for COVID-19 cases
The Henry Ford Health System in Detroit will proceed with surgeries at its outpatient locations but will postpone procedures that are not time-sensitive as it makes adjustments due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to C&G Newspapers. -
$4M ophthalmology surgery center opens, gets accreditation
The Surgery Center at Gateway in Clinton, Iowa has opened its doors and recently received accreditation from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care. -
Nebraska eye center's data breached
The Randleman (N.C.) Eye Center sent a notice to their patients about a security breach. -
Vision Innovation Partners suspends all nonemergency appointments, elective procedures
Annapolis, Md.-based Vision Innovation Partners is combating the COVID-19 pandemic by suspending all nonemergency appointments and elective surgeries throughout its network of affiliated practices, effective March 16. -
Ophthalmology sees first stagnant quarter of PE investment in years
No private equity firms entered the ophthalmology space in the fourth quarter of 2019, making it the first time in about two years that the market had no new entrants, according to Physicians First's 2020 ophthalmology outlook report. -
Pharmaceutical company partners with office-based ophthalmic surgery provider
Ophthalmology-focused pharmaceutical compounding business ImprimisRx has entered into a product supply agreement with iOR Partners. -
Idaho eye center adds advanced laser system
Boise, Idaho-based Hollingshead Eye Center installed the WaveLight Refractive Suite for Lasik surgery. -
5 highlights from EyePoint Pharmaceuticals' Q4
EyePoint Pharmaceuticals reported $8.6 million and $20.4 million in fourth-quarter and 2019 revenues, respectively. -
What ophthalmologists need to know about coronavirus
COVID-19 poses little risk to ophthalmology and its patients, despite the high global and national public health threat, the Ophthalmology Times reports. -
3 recent ophthalmic ASC & practice acquisitions
Three recent ophthalmic ASC and practice acquisitions: -
How burned out are ophthalmologists? 5 'Medscape' report details
Opthalmologists feel like they are spending too much time with paperwork and experiencing EHR burnout like other physicians, yet they maintain a lower level of burnout compared to other physicians, according to Medscape's 2020 ophthalmologist lifestyle, happiness and burnout report. -
3 things to know about the ophthalmic ASC industry's 1st clinically integrated network
The Vision Center Network of America is the first and only clinically integrated network for ophthalmic ASCs, according to the Ophthalmic ASC magazine. -
The rise of Vision Innovation Partners
Annapolis, Md.-based Vision Innovation Partners went through an identity crisis before establishing its current moniker, but the growing mid-Atlantic private equity platform is establishing a stronghold in the region with no plans of stopping. -
Vision Innovation Partners strikes again, acquires Baltimore Eye Physicians
Vision Innovation Partners continues to grow across the Mid-Atlantic region, this time acquiring Baltimore Eye Physicians March 2. -
3 things to know about ophthalmologist salary growth & hospital revenue generated
Ophthalmologists generate over $1 million for hospitals, on average according to a survey conducted by physician search firm Merritt Hawkins.
Page 43 of 45