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• OMIC Drawing for Young Ophthalmologists. Win a $500 Apple Gift Card!
  

  OMIC is offering a free drawing for Young Ophthalmologists (YOs). If you are a YO American Academy of Ophthalmology member, here’s your chance to win a $500 Apple Gift Card. OMIC will enter you in the drawing when you visit the OMIC exhibit Booth 1004, next to the Academy Resource Center in the Exhibit Hall […]

• CMS Extends Meaningful Use Hardship Exception Deadline
  

  From AAO Bulletin: Physicians have another chance to apply for a hardship exception to avoid the 1 percent 2015 penalty for not demonstrating “meaningful use” of an electronic health record system. Responding to pressure from the Academy, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced today that it is reopening the hardship exception application period. […]

• FDA Recall Alert: Sagent Pharmaceuticals Announces Voluntary Recall of Ketorolac Tromethamine Injection, USP, 30mg/mL Due to Incorrect Labeling
  

  From Recent ASCRS Bulletin: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) alerted providers that Sagent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is conducting a nationwide recall of three lots of Ketorolac Tromethamine Injection, USP, 30mg/mL, single-dose vial, manufactured by Cadila Healthcare Limited and distributed by Sagent. The product was labeled with the incorrect expiration date.  The labeled expiration date is […]

• OMIC Increases Coverage Limit on Policy Benefits
  

  We are pleased to announce that your standard policy benefit limits for all 14 included regulatory and cyber exposures has been increased from $50,000 to $100,000 per policy year effective January 1, 2015. OMIC has monitored the exposures related to administrative practice activities such billing reimbursements for services and electronic storage and transmission of protected […]