November 29th 2023
Physician details her journey from sustaining career-ending injury to insurance advocate.
Internet glasses shoppers and loaves of banana nut bread
November 6th 2018Are you wondering if other practices are charging for adding pupillary distance (PD) to prescriptions and adjusting glasses purchased online for free? If so, how does this fit into your mission statement and strategic goals?
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Integrating new technology into busy ophthalmic ASC
November 1st 2017Adopting new technologies across multiple practices using a single ambulatory surgery center can be challenging. A systematic approach leverages technology champions, employs consistent communications, and provides administrative support to secure reimbursement.
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Is the world a better place because of your practice?
September 15th 2016When Martin Luther King said, “I have a dream,” he had a vision for people, not a program. Visionary leaders have the ability to communicate values and ideas in a way that connects. In your practice, they bring certainty into the uncertain world of reimbursement rates and rapid change. What is your capacity to bring vision and direction into times of uncertainty?
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Virtual eye health and vision examination: Why not?
August 6th 2016We really are at a crossroads in eye healthcare. Wouldn’t a virtual exam be ‘just as good’ as a trip to the eye doctor? To today’s busy consumer, how can we justify leisurely sitting in front of a computer or in a kiosk versus an in-office visit that takes sixty plus minutes and includes that awkward part – dilation?
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Ceeable aims to be the next gold standard in visual fields
July 26th 2016Ceeable, a web-based, mobile digital technology designed to detect early-stage eye diseases-an innovation that can help shape 21st century medicine-was awarded third place in the American Medical Association’s inaugural Healthier Nation Innovation Challenge.
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Keys to finding balance in a successful practice
June 9th 2016"How can I have a successful private practice and still ensure life balance?" In 2016, this is the question I hear most frequently. It should come as no surprise to you that busy eyecare practitioners need help with time management issues.
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DJ ophthalmologists in surgery by day, mixing music by night
April 21st 2016Terry Kim, MD, and Anthony Aldave, MD, refuse to let their busy worklives get in the way of pursuing their hobbies. For 7 years, they’ve found a way to merge their professional and personal lives by DJing at ophthalmology meetings.
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Advice to managers: 'Leave it better than you found it'
January 1st 2016From time to time I receive requests from a new manager or supervisor asking for any pearls of wisdom to help them as they begin their new role in the administrative field. They have the wide-eyed exuberance of youth, a child-like view at the practice they have been in for years and are now seeing for the first time with a “fresh snow” view: untouched, clean, white, gentle drifts of snow. Those of us who have been there realize they will soon see that what they are really looking at is end of winter: dirty snow and dreary, cloudy skies.
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Are ETFs the new mutual funds?
March 1st 2013Take-Home MessageInvestors are shifting assets to passively managed vehicles. For many, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have become the vehicle of choice. ETFs are investments that trade on exchanges, and are designed to mirror the performance of certain market indexes, so they tend to be passively managed.
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