AAO '24: COVID and Retinal Disease, Plus the Latest on Step Therapy and Declining Reimbursement

Are retina doctors seeing more retinal pathology following infection or vaccination? Or is there nothing to see here? Rahul Khurana, MD, joins us to discuss the findings of various health care database analyses seeking to clarify whether COVID infection or vaccination were linked to retinal manifestations. Was there a clear—or even an opaque—connection between the two? And Paul Hahn, MD, PhD, sits down with us to explain how inflation, new realities of reimbursement, and step therapy directives are playing out in retina clinics in the United States. Inflation-adjusted reimbursement is declining—but can anything be done about it? And is step therapy actually saving the system any cash?