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SightLine

Agenda

2025 Theme: Exploring Payment Pathways Beyond Coverage

The theme of this year’s SightLine at ASCRS focuses on payment pathways beyond typical insurance reimbursement.

Thematic topics to be explored include:

  • The Anatomy of Building a New Payment Category
  • Diagnostic Services—Is Coverage the Best Pathway for Patients?
  • Myopia Management—Preparing for the Coming Tsunami of Patients
  • Can Chronic Disease Treatment Be a Patient Pay Category?

Annual, reoccurring topics will include:

  • Survey data on ophthalmic practice financial health
  • Introducing a comprehensive survey model for key products
  • How the financial markets see ophthalmology
  • The Winning Pitch Challenge
  • Ophthalmologists working beyond patient care

Thu
Apr 24, 2025

7:00–8:30 a.m.
Registration & Networking Breakfast
8:30–8:45 a.m.
Welcome Remarks, Survey Results on Attitudes and Trends in Commercial Ophthalmology, and ASOA Market Trend Survey

Steve Speares

8:45–9:05 a.m.
If Healthcare Is a Lagging Market, Where Does Ophthalmology Stand?

Mike Connor, JP Morgan

9:05–9:55 a.m.
Successfully Leading Through Challenging Situations—The Executive Viewpoint

Moderator: Jim Mazzo
Panel: Bobak Azamian, MD, PhD, Tarsus; Mark Baum, Harrow; Sergio Duplan, Alcon; Warren Foust, STAAR Surgical; Peter Menziuso, Johnson & Johnson Vision; Magnus Reibenspiess, ZEISS; Brent Saunders, Bausch + Lomb; Ramin Valian, AbbVie

9:55–10:20 a.m.
The Anatomy of Building a New Payment Category

Moderator: Adrienne Graves, PhD
Panel: Andy Corley, Chris Cox, Richard Lindstrom, MD

10:20–10:45 a.m.
Paying for Enhanced Diagnostic Technologies—Who and How?

Moderator: Matt Jensen
Panel: Melissa Ciccarelli, COE; Nicole Fram, MD; Dagny Zhu, MD

10:45–11:10 a.m.
Myopia Management: The Business of Ophthalmology or Optometry?

Moderator: Eric Donnenfeld, MD
Panel: Gary Gerber, OD; Patrick Johnson; Nancy Sabin; Kerry Solomon, MD

11:10 –11:40 a.m.
Reimbursement or Reinvention? Where Are We and Where Are We Headed?

Moderator: John Berdahl, MD
Panel: Mark Cribben, JD; Eric Gregg, JD; additional TBD

11:40–11:55 a.m.
Interactive Q&A with Audience and Faculty

Moderator: John Berdahl, MD
Faculty: Steve Speares; Nicole Fram, MD

11:55 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
Networking Lunch
1:15–2:15 p.m.
The Winning Pitch Challenge

Moderators: Vance Thompson, MD; John Berdahl, MD
Panel: Jim Mazzo; Richard Lindstrom, MD; William Link, PhD; Ali Bauerlein

2:15–2:45 p.m.
From the Operating Room to the Board Room—Surgeons Exploring Career Pathways Beyond Clinical Care

Moderator: Raj Rajpal, MD
Panel: Cathleen McCabe, MD; Michael Rivers, MD; Steve Schallhorn, MD; Elizabeth Yeu, MD;

2:45–3:00 p.m.
Closing Remarks

Steve Speares

3:00–4:00 p.m.
Networking Reception
For Speakers
Press
Contacts
Subspecialty Day

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