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Optical Lab Profits: In-House or Outsource?

Financial

By Kayla Groves

Have you contemplated whether your practice could sustain an in-house lab? This is a challenging question for any office, but for smaller one-or-two o ...

Encourage your Patients to Utilize FSA Dollars

Financial

By Kayla Groves

December is usually a chaotic month for most people, but this is especially true for optometrists and optical shops. Every year, your patients wait un ...

Eco-friendly Eyewear: Ways to Boost Practice Sustainability & Profits

Practice Management

By Practice Growth

Over the past twenty years, there has been a massive global shift towards minimizing our personal and professional impact on the environment.  Ma ...

Why Are KPIs Important To Checking The Health of Your Practice?

Health IT

By Austin Stone

Have you ever wondered what KPIs mean and why so many fortune 500 companies talk about them and the importance of tracking them? KPI stands for Key Pe ...

Negotiate COGs to Boost Optometry Practice Profitability

Financial

By Courtney Dryer, O.D.

Most optometrists are aware of the current inflation problem. While the costs of goods and services continue to rise, our insurance reimbursements do ...

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

Practice Management

By 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 ...

How to Get the Greatest Return From Your Dry Eye Patients

Billing & Collections

By Mary Hollis Stuck

Dry Eye Syndrome is an incredibly common problem among patients of all ages. Doctors regularly treat and prescribe patients complaining of a burning, ...

Does Your Practice Culture Foster a Fixed Mindset or Growth Mindset?

Entrepreneurship

By Practice Growth

At a glance, it seems obvious: believing that you can develop your individual skills and talents yields more results than believing that everything yo ...

Are You Asking the Top 5 Patient Satisfaction Survey Questions?

Patient Engagement

By Practice Growth

Your patient satisfaction survey should cover every aspect of the patient’s appointment, which starts as soon as they complete the booking. You& ...

Patient Education Pays Dividends

Patient Engagement

By Practice Growth

With countless advances in technology and communication in the past quarter-century, information consumption has increased rapidly and exponentially. ...