I see many message/threads containing complaints about third party plans. Now there is an organization dedicated to defending eye care professionals from the predatory and anti-competitive, anti-consumer practices of these plans. These plans are now regulating our profession. Setting our fees, telling us what products we can use, what labs we can use, what discounts we can, and can NOT, offer. AADO is about restoring normal competition by challenging these onerous rules and contracts, and allowing us to do what we do so that consumers -- all of them, not just those with Plan X -- get the best care and best products for the best price.
I'm not going to outline or repeat here the Mission of the AADO. Please visit
http://www.theaado.org, read about it, and consider joining. Until and unless eye care providers start pushing back, you have no reason to expect anything but more of the same. AADO is already working hard to stop the momentum of the plans. More information will be coming soon. In the meantime, AADO needs members to support its activities.
Craig Steinberg, O.D., Esq.
Executive Director, the AADO
admin@theaado.org
http://www.theaado.org
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