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ASCRS ANNUAL MEETING
DAILY NEWS
Dr. Holland said later in the ses-
sion that part of the problem is that
"we've lumped everything into dry
eye." He said he likes the term ocular
surface disease and said those devel-
oping therapies and those treating
patients need to start segmenting out
ocular surface disease based on its
different causes (MGD, aqueous tear
deficiency, etc.), and stop lumping
everything into dry eye disease.
While the panel agreed that
there is a need for companies to
clearly differentiate their programs,
the elephant in the room is the sig-
nificant obstacle of gaining access to
products, Mr. Dempsey said.
"One of the single most import-
ant aspects of me being a physician
and trying to treat a patient with
OSD is the payer," Dr. Holland said.
He described having a patient
with an acute flare-up of dry eye who
is uncomfortable today due to MGD,
but he needs to prescribe topical
cyclosporine and have the patient fail
before his patient will get cover-
age for a script for the glands. Mr.
Gleeson said there is a real threat for
anyone who has the dry eye label.
Dr. Farid said we need to push
payers to understand that you can't
treat dry eye with one drug. We need
to do what the glaucoma world did,
she said. "Payers need to be educated
on that we need multiple treatments
for one patient. It's not fail one and
go to the other."
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