CASTER EYE CENTER AND
 THE COUNCIL FOR REFRACTIVE SURGERY QUALITY ASSURANCE (USAEyes)

The Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance (USAEyes) is the only organization in the United States to impartially monitor quality in refractive surgery. It is an independent, nonprofit consumer-oriented health organization that certifies refractive surgeons who meet USAEyes' standards of quality of care, and educates the public about refractive surgery through seminars, publications, public speaking, and the Internet.

Dr. Caster is one of only a handful of surgeons in Southern California (and one of less than 250 in the entire United States) who has passed this rigorous process and been recognized as a USAEyes Certified Refractive Surgeon™.

A surgeon seeking certification must submit to close scrutiny. With the acceptance of a surgeon's application, USAEyes verifies the surgeon's credentials. This would include personal history, professional history, hospital privileges, specialty board certification, residency completion, schooling, malpractice insurance claims history, National Physician Database history, Federation of State Medical Boards disciplinary history, sanctions against licensure, Medicaid and/or Medicare sanctions, American Medical Association profile, and more. Any patient complaints submitted through USAEyes' website are also evaluated and considered.

If the surgeon's credentials are satisfactory, the surgeon must submit outcome data to verify successful completion of refractive surgery procedures. The data audited must meet the strict guidelines of USAEyes. Only after all these requirements have been met can a surgeon become a USAEyes Certified Refractive Surgeon™.

Becoming a USAEyes Certified Refractive Surgeon™ does not mean that a surgeon will always remain one. USAEyes Certified Refractive Surgeons™ are reevaluated every three months. In the event a CRSQA Certified Refractive Surgeon™ is found to be providing unsatisfactory refractive surgery outcomes or otherwise falls outside of CRSQA standards, the surgeon's certification will be withdrawn.