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4 EW SHOW DAILY Tuesday, April 23, 2013 ASCRS News Today Winners of the 2013 Film Festival Winner Open Ring-Shaped Guider for CCC Choun-Ki Joo, MD, PhD Seoul, Republic of Korea Glaucoma Surgery Runner-Up The Count on Tubes Herbert P. Fechter III, MD Evans, Ga. Winner Leaking Blebs: Grafts, Patches, and Rotational Flaps Amar Agarwal, FRCS Chennai, India In-House Productions Runner-Up Safer Phaco for the Beginner: Wound Construction Ian Yeo, FRCS Singapore Winner Save That Kid's Bag Mauricio A. Perez, MD Cincinnati Samir A. Melki, MD, is winner of the 2013 ASCRS Film Festival. Grand Prize Winner Telemetric IOP Measurement: Deciphering Glaucoma's Blind Spot (Instruments & Devices/IOLs) Samir A. Melki, MD, PhD Brookline, Mass. Cataract/Implant Surgery Runner-Up Lessons Learned—Complications of Glued IOL Athiya Agarwal, MD Chennai, India Instruments & Devices/IOLs Runner-Up Translenticular Hydrodissection in Femtosecond Laser Cataract Surgery Marcela Espinosa, MD East Grinstead, United Kingdom Winner How to Obtain High-Quality iPhone Slitlamp Photographs, Slitlamp Videos, and Surgical Microscope Videos Mitchell P. Weikert, MD Houston New Producer Runner-Up Clinical Utility of In Vivo Confocal Microscopy for Diagnosing Corneal Pathology Gene Kim, MD Houston Winner Crystalline Lens Eclipse: Restoring the Anatomy and Visual Function in Pediatric Ectopia Lentis Esperanza López Mondéjar, MD Alcázar de San Juan, Spain Quality Teaching Runner-Up Let There Be Wavefront III: How to Manipulate Wavefront Myoung Joon Kim, MD Seoul, Republic of Korea Winner Temperature in Anterior Chamber During Phacoemulsification Hisaharu Suzuki, MD Kanagawa, Japan Refractive Cornea Surgery Winner The Frozen Cornea Affair Arturo L. Kantor MD Santiago, Chile People's Choice Award Runner-Up New Techniques Simple New Technique for Scleral Fixation of IOL Sinumol Sukumaran Thulaseedharan, MS, DNB Thrissur, India Winner Instruments & Devices/IOLs How to Obtain High-Quality iPhone Slitlamp Photographs, Slitlamp Videos, and Surgical Microscope Mitchell P. Weikert, MD Houston New Techniques Runner-Up Conquering Rock Hard Cataracts With New 90-Degree Bent Tip Arup Bhaumik, MS Kolkata, India Runner-Up Femtosecond Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty Sheraz M. Daya, MD, FACP W. Sussex, United Kingdom Best of the Best Winner Management of Double Crystalline Lens Jagat Ram, MS Chandigarh, India Winner Combined LASIK and Small-Aperture Inlay Procedure Waleed Saleh Al-Tuwairqi, MD Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Runner-Up Managing Iris Prolapse When Sealing the Wound During Cataract Surgery Daniel H. Chang, MD Bakersfield, Calif. Special Interest Best of the Best Winner Cataract Complications Runner-Up Blowouts Lakshmi Omprakash, MBBS, DO Omprakash, India The Road Not Taken Abhay R. Vasavada, MS, FRCS Ahmedabad, India which allows physicians to privately contract on a case-by-case basis without Medicare beneficiarys losing their Medicare benefit. Current law requires physicians to opt-out for a minimum of two years and the beneficiary has to pay out of pocket. She also reviewed and outlined the various quality improvement initiatives, including the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRS), electronic medical records (EMR)/ meaningful use, electronic prescribing (eRx), and the value-based payment modifier. She ended the session with a call to the membership to become actively involved in the political process through the ASCRS EyeContact grassroots program, which contains updated information on all ASCRS legislative priorities and legislative proposals, as well as easy links to communicate directly with members of Congress. She reiterated how important it is that members of Congress hear directly from the physicians in their states/ districts on how proposals impact their practices, and most importantly, their patients. EW continued from page 1 replacement of the SGR that will be based on quality, outcomes, and efficiencies. The policy is supported by both parties. ASCRS provided feedback to a first and subsequent draft framework. The second draft preserves but modifies fee-for-service and allows specialties to develop their own quality measures and metrics for future updates, Ms. McCann said. "Right now, they're proposing a stabilization period of two to three years; we've asked for five years." After a period of stabilization, there will be a base payment, which will withhold a certain percentage of payment, with additional variable rates available that are tied to performance and a potential additional payment based on efficiency of care. The President's Fiscal Year 2014 budget, which is a political document, includes a baseline that assumes the cost of repealing the SGR and a 10-year payment freeze, she said. "But it strengthens the IPAB. That's a concern for us and we'll be watching carefully." ASCRS is also actively advocating for a viable private contracting option. Legislation has been reintroduced in the House and the Senate,

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