Medi-Cal reimbursement rates for optometry have gone unchanged for decades! 🗓️ Optometrists are forced out of the program and patients left scrambling to find care. #CALeg: Raising optometry rates is critical to ensure Californians have #HealthyVision. (fb)

🚨 Governor Newsom’s May Revision of the #CABudget misses the opportunity to make vision care more cost effective for the state! Optometrists are struggling to keep their doors open to Medi-Cal patients as the cost of doing business soars. Last year, the Governor and state lawmakers acknowledged the need to improve Medi-Cal reimbursement rates for eye care or risk leaving millions of children, older adults, and communities of color living with untreated vision problems! #CALeg: we urge you to include increased optometry reimbursement rates in the final #CABudget (fb)