Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. (AMO) (NYSE: AVO), announced today that it has completed its acquisition of VISX, Incorporated. The strategic combination brings together two highly complementary companies with a broad range of superior ophthalmic technologies and a singular focus on serving the vision care needs of practitioners and patients around the world.
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The announcement by Medicare on May 3 that beneficiaries now may choose a cataract replacement lens that corrects close, intermediate and distance vision, rather than just the lens for distance vision correction, has caused excitement among senior citizens, eye surgeons and certainly at the companies that makes the approved intraocular lens (IOL).
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Eyeonics, inc. today announced that the Crystalens procedure can now be privately purchased by Medicare beneficiaries. Crystalens is the first and only FDA-approved naturally focusing (accommodating) vision-correction lens replacement for adults with cataracts and presbyopia.
Original post by Glenn Hagele - USAEyes - glenn.hagele@usaeyes.org

This Ruling sets forth CMS policy concerning the requirements for determining payment for insertion of presbyopia-correcting intraocular lenses following cataract surgery under the following sections of the Social Security Act (the Act)…
Original post by Glenn Hagele - USAEyes - glenn.hagele@usaeyes.org