New This Week
Plan a Practice Exit Strategy Early On
Kenneth Daniels, OD, FAAO, Dipl. ABO, recommends planning early on for your eventual exit from practice ownership. He structured his practice as a C-corporation in which associates can purchase stock and re-invest dividends. That way, associates can build equity over time instead of having to make a large single investment atop their student loans. >>READ MORE>>
Practice Management
Choose a Location to Match Your Practice Vision
By Maria Higgins, OD
Choosing the right location for your practice requires demographic and financial analyses, but also look for a community where you can achieve personal satisfaction. Here are keys to finding the right fit. >>READ MORE>
Coding & Billing
ICD-10 Success Planner: Let Your EHR Lend a Hand
By Kelly Kerksick, OD
Mandated conversion to ICD-10 codes is almost here. Utilize your electronic health records as a key to ICD-10 conversion success. >>READ MORE>>
EHR/Software Solutions
Achieve Meaningful Use of EHR
Excerpt from the Navigation Guide to Health Care Reform
By ROB Editors
Achieving Meaningful Use of electronic health records is essential to EHR success. Here are tips, an action plan—and a link to download the full report. >>READ MORE>>
ROB Fast Fact
How Many Offices You Co-Manage With Have Achieved Meaningful Use?
Over half of the health care offices you co-manage with have achieved Meaningful Use of electronic health records, statistics from Health IT Dashboard suggest. As of April 2015, 54 percent of all U.S. office-based physicians (MD/DO) have demonstrated Meaningful Use of certified health IT in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs.
Click HERE to read more from Review of Optometric Business professional editors Carole Burns, OD, FCOVD, and Mark Wright, OD, on achieving Meaningful Use in your practice.
In Brief
Essilor Expands Consumer Advertising for Varilux Lenses
Essilor of America is extending consumer advertising efforts for Varilux lenses to print publications. The new Varilux lenses full-page print ad will start this fall and appear in six consumer magazines: Food and Wine, Fortune, Golf, More, Sports Illustrated and Sunset. >>READ MORE>>
New Study: Greater Eye Health Education for Hispanics Needed
Nearly eight out of 10 Hispanic Americans are experiencing vision problems that can negatively impact their health and everyday lives, yet few are taking steps to protect and enhance their vision – with just four out of 10 saying they visited their eye doctor within the past year, according to new research by Wakefield for Transitions Optical, Inc. <<READ MORE>>
Challenge –> Solution
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Practice Challenge…
How do I turn co-management into a practice-builder?As health care reform is enacted, your ability to profitably co-manage patients is more important than ever. Here is how three contributors effectively–and profitably–co-manage patients.
…Practice Solution
- Post-Op Cataract Care: Maximize Profitability
- Co-Management: Three Common Scenarios to Legally Protect Your Practice
- Cataract Co-Management: Serve the Aging, Build Practice
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