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Date:7/15/2008

dical equipment/prosthetics, orthotics and supplies) accreditation restriction, which the AOA strongly opposed. The measure also provides Congress with a full 18 months to find a solution to the flawed Medicare-sustainable growth rate (SGR) payment formula, which prevents implementation of an unfair DMEPOS regulation that threatens to deny our Medicare patients' access to post-surgical eyewear.

If Congress had not intervened, these pay cuts to doctors would have undoubtedly limited care and service for seniors and others who depend on Medicare, the AOA maintained.

"This is a hard won victory for our patients and shows how concerned doctors can make their voices heard in Washington, DC. On behalf of doctors of optometry in communities across the country, I want to thank all our supporters in the House and Senate who voted for this bill and committed to overriding the President unwarranted veto. Special thanks to Senators Edward Kennedy (MA), Max Baucus (MT) and Harry Reid (NV), Speaker Pelosi (CA), Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD) and Majority Whip James Clyburn (SC) who listened to their local optometrists and took the profession's pro-patient message to heart," said Kehoe.

About the American Optometric Association (AOA):

The American Optometric Association represents approximately 36,000 doctors of optometry, optometry students and paraoptometric assistants and technicians. Optometrists serve patients in nearly 6,500 communities across the country, and in 3,500 of those communities are the only eye doctors. Doctors of optometry provide two-thirds of all primary eye care in the United States.

American Optometric Association doctors of optometry are highly qualified, trained doctors on the frontline of eye and vision care who examine, diagnose, treat and manage diseases and disorders of the eye. In addition to providing eye and vision care, optometrists play a major role in a patient's overall health and well-being by detecting syst
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