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4 Ways to Build a Rock-Solid Support System to Ensure the Profitability and Sustainability of your Private Optometry Practice

Practice Management Courtney Dryer, O.D.

Owning and managing an eyecare business can feel like living on an island of one. Physicians become a jack-of-all-trades in our practices from diagnos (...)

Maximizing Patient Volume without Reducing Quality of Care

Practice Management Courtney Dryer, O.D.

As rising inflation became a concern this past year, discussion amongst optometrists has centered around the rising cost of doing business and remaini (...)

3 Optometry Practice Management Tips to Increase Productivity and Reduce Staff Turnover

Practice Management Mary Hollis Stuck

Managing your optometry practice can feel overwhelming, even if you have a management team in place. Unlike other medical practices, you have the adde (...)

How to Write a Top-Tier, Professional Eye Care Employee Handbook

Human Resources Practice Growth

If you’re opening a new eye care practice for the first time or are looking to revise your employee procedures and rules, you'll need to know ho (...)

Driving Practice Growth with Dry Eye Business

Practice Models Kate Gettinger, OD

In this day and age, it’s becoming rarer to see the eyecare practice of old, where the emphasis was simply on fitting and dispensing standard gl (...)

How to Attract and Retain Eyecare Staff in a Turbulent Economy

Human Resources Eleni Karayeva

With wage expectations going up and inflation rising, businesses are faced with difficulties hiring and retaining their staff. Eye care practices are (...)

Preparing Your Practice for Pint-Sized Patients

Practice Management Kate Gettinger, OD

When it comes to children’s ocular health, we as eye care providers need to be poised and ready to address the growing need expected over the ne (...)

Do You Have a Peeved Patient Plan?

Practice Management Practice Growth

Imagine your practice is in the middle of a crazy Monday afternoon and short one front-desk person, your EHR system crashed 20 minutes ago, and the do (...)

New Year, New Plans - How to Navigate Medicare Advantage Plans in 2020

Billing & Collections Mary Hollis Stuck

With the number of Medicare Advantage plans on the rise, the optometry industry is in a uniquely complicated position. Being an industry that provides (...)

Private Equity in Eyecare: Two Sides of the Coin

Practice Models Kate Gettinger, OD

Now, more than ever, it may be critical for you to analyze the performance of your practice and evaluate how it compares to the rest of the industry. (...)