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November 3, 2020

Electroretinography CAC Meeting

Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) will host a Contractor Advisory Committee (CAC) meeting regarding electroretinography.

For each voting question, please use the following scale identifying your level of confidence - with a score of 1 being low or no confidence and 5 representing high confidence.

1
Low Confidence
2 3
Intermediate
4 5
High Confidence

Using this scale, please rate your confidence in the clinical literature for each question and cite the literature and rationale for your score. A score of ≥ 2.5 is considered intermediate confidence that thereis robust clinical literature to support the question.

  1. What Is your level of confidence there is robust clinical evidence that supports the use of pattern electroretinography (PERG) in the diagnosis and/or management of glaucoma?
  2. Do you feel there is robust clinical evidence that supports the role of other forms of electroretinography (ERG) in glaucoma management? Yes or No

    If yes, what form of ERG and what supporting evidence is the basis?
  1. What Is your level of confidence there is robust clinical evidence to support the role of PERG in retinal disease diagnosis and/or management?

Bibliography

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  3. Bach M UA, Philippin H. Pattern ERG as an early glaucoma indicator in ocular hypertension: a long-term, prospective study. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2006(47):4881-4887.
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  9. Jung K, Jeon, S, Kim, YC, and Park, CK. Comparison of pattern electroretinograms of glaucoma patients with parafoveal scotoma versus peripheral nasal step. Sci Rep 2019;1:3547.
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