Optometry

• Practice Management

• Shift in optical shop philosophy boosts practice bottom line

• April 15, 2007
• Fundamental changes in philosophy at Ocala Eye helped us to improve our optical shop and achieve a 250% increase in optical revenue in the past 6 years.
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• Practice Management

• Structuring subspecialist arrangement requires careful planning

• April 15, 2007
• Ophthalmologists today feel they work harder and longer than ever to earn less money. Consequently, many are investigating additional ways to increase...More »

• Practice Management

• Well-defined succession plan needed before practice can be sold

• April 15, 2007
• As the founder and senior owner-employee of a fine, well-established ophthalmic practice, you find yourself ready to add a new surgeon or to retire...More »

• Practice Management

• Study: Half of U.S. adults at high risk for vision loss not receiving eye exams

• March 28, 2007
• Of an estimated 61 million Americans at increased risk for vision loss, only slightly more than half received a dilated eye exam within the past 12...More »

• Practice Management

• Ophthalmic organization pledges support for EyeCare America programs

• February 22, 2007
• The Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology has passed a resolution aimed at boosting volunteer participation in EyeCare America, a...More »

• Practice Management

• No decrease in Medicare reimbursement for this year

• Primary Care Optometry News, February 2007
  Charles B. Brownlow, OD, FAAO
• Another year, another Medicare controversy over reimbursement for providers. For the fourth year in a row, Medicare has faced its financial crisis and has...More »

• Practice Management

• Most Americans over age 50 do not disclose alternative medicine use to physicians, survey finds

• January 30, 2007
• A telephone survey of almost 1,600 U.S. adults over 50 years of age found that 69% did not disclose their use of complementary and alternative medicines...More »

• Practice Management

• CMS assigns new code, payment rate for uveitis implant

• January 25, 2007
• ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has assigned a new product-specific code for billing Medicare for Bausch &...More »

• Practice Management

• CMS allows partial Medicare coverage for toric IOLs

• January 23, 2007
• The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a ruling Monday that allows Medicare beneficiaries undergoing cataract surgery to choose to receive...More »

• Practice Management

• Maloney: Strategize now for future litigation

• January 17, 2007
• KOLOA, Hawaii — Because the odds are that if a practicing ophthalmologist has not been sued, he or she will be, ophthalmologists should learn how to...More »

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