Review of Optometic Business

By Jeanmarie Davis, OD

Expanding your treatment of dry eye can help you provide your patients with improved vision, while opening up a new area of growth for your practice.

By Tom Steiner

You have the opportunity to better serve patients, and greatly expand the scope of your practice, by offering medical eyecare. It may be time for your practice to measure the medical model opportunity and make plans to roll out new services.

By Jeanmarie Davis, OD

Treating ocular allergies, and publicizing your services, is essential to better serving a growing portion of your patient base.

By Thomas F. Steiner

Providing your patients with medical eyecare services is a key practice growth driver.

By Mark Wright, OD, FCOVD

The complexities of coding and billing are among the most common complaints heard in eyecare practices. But there are plenty of resources to guide you and your staff in this process—so many, in fact, that complexities are compounded.

Let’s work together, utilizing a web-based technique called "group sourcing," to build a comprehensive "Coding and Billing Resource."

By John Lahr, OD,

John Lahr, OD, FAAO, medical director of EyeMed, explains how submitting high-risk diagnosis codes for diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol is critical to tracking these high-risk conditions. Submitting high-risk diagnosis codes also may be key to maintaining panel status.