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Disaster relief funds available for optometrists impacted by recent storms and flooding
Given the unprecedented rain and severe flooding in Indiana, the IOA wants to make its membership aware of a resource available for assistance.
Douglas Morrow, O.D., Receives 2026 Distinguished Service Award from the American Optometry Association
Douglas Morrow, OD, was honored last week in Phoenix at Optometry's Meeting®. During the 2026 American Optometric Association’s (AOA) Excellence Award presentation, Dr. Morrow received the Distinguished Service Award for his extraordinarily significant contributions to the profession of optometry.
Indiana Optometry Receives 2026 AOA Membership Excellence Award
Our members are truly the lifeblood of our organization, and your involvement enables us to uphold and realize our mission, purpose, and vital vision for the future.
Together, the American Optometric Association and the IOA have advanced the profession and practice of optometry and, every day, we safeguard our hard-won essential and expanding role in health care. Through advocacy, public awareness, practice tools, professional development and other offerings, and by maintaining an active...
Indiana Optometric Association Launches Public Awareness Media Campaign to Encourage Annual Eye Exams
The Indiana Optometric Association (IOA) kicked off a multi-media campaign centered around the theme “More than 20/20” to highlight the importance of optometrists in healthcare, and to encourage Indiana viewers to schedule an annual eye exam.
The IOA hired a marketing agency to create a series of 15-second and 30-second video and audio clips featuring patients and ODs from a local practice. The media exposures began in late May on CTV (streaming channels), podcasts, and YouTu...
2026 Indiana Optometry Award Winners Announced; New Board Officers Inducted
CE Requirements for 2026 Renewal
Optometrist licenses and legend drug certificates are required to be renewed by April 1, 2026. Visit this page for more information: www.ioa.org/ce_requirements.php
Update on Anthem recoupment letters
Reporting illegal contact lens sales
Indiana Optometric Association Announces 2024 Award Winners, Inducts New Board Officers
The Indiana Optometric Association (IOA) announced its 2024 award winners April 19, 2024, at Indiana Optometry’s Meeting, the IOA’s 127th annual convention.
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Scam Alert
Criminals are using the IOA name and phone number to contact members and inform them that their license is suspended and the FBI is involved. This is a scam. Please do not give out any personal information over the phone. For more about ID spoofing, please visit the Federal Communications Commision (FCC) website here: https://www.fcc.gov/spoofing
The Indiana Professional Licensing Agency (IPLA) maintains optometric licensing information. You can check your license status at any time at th...
Zieba receives 2023 AOA Virgil Deering Executive Director of the Year Award
Indiana Optometry announces Tabitha Arnett as new executive director
IOA Announces 2023 Award Winners, Inducts New Board Officers
Alert: DEA Scam Calls
Doctors should know that the DEA will never contact by telephone to demand payment; will never request personal or sensitive information by phone; and will only notify by official letter. Click for more info.
Governor fills vacancy on Indiana Optometry Board
Superior Vision to Replace VSP as Anthem's Medicaid Vision Services Provider
Effective April 1, 2021, for Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (Anthem) members enrolled in Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan and Hoosier Care Connect, vision benefits will be coordinated by Superior Vision. Anthem’s contract with Vision Service Plan will end on March 31, 2021.
** SCAM ALERT **
Criminals are using the names, logos, and other information from the IOA, Indiana Optometry Board, and US Dept. of Justice to illegally extort money from Optometrists. The criminals are contacting ODs and telling them that their license has been suspended because someone is using their license and prescribing numbers to illicitly sell drugs. They then request payment in the form of gift cards.