All healthcare reform Articles

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  Practice Management

  21st Century Cures Act: Key Actions You Will Need to Take In Your Practice

  The essential changes to how you practice stimulated by a new law.

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  Medical Model

  What COVID-19 Has Taught Us About The Importance of Outcome-Based Care

  What the COVID-19 crisis teaches us about the needs of health-care reform.

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  News Briefs Archive

  How Health Care Reform is Shaping the Future of Optometry

  Help sorting through the coming changes to healthcare.

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  Practice Management

  Six Keys to Capturing Opportunities with Diabetic Patients

  How to best treat and retain diabetic patients.

• The Optometric Minute

  Telemedicine: Should We Embrace It, and Will We Get Paid?

  Make telemedicine work for you and your patients.

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  Issues in Optometry

  OPINION: How the Health Care Debate May Impact Pediatric Vision Care

  Here are a few key ways to reach more pediatric patients.

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  Practice Management

  MACRA & MIPS: 8 Actions to Maximize Reimbursements

  Make MACRA & MIPS benefit your practice.

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  Managed Care

  Integrated Eyecare Networks: Use Technology to Coordinate Care

  By Chad Fleming, OD, FAAOOct. 21, 2015Healthcare reform demands connectivity. See how ODs can access new technology that facilitates coordinated care through...

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  News Briefs Archive

  National Health Care Spending: Increasing Modestly, But Faster than Expected

  August 12, 2015: The trend line for health care spending is on the rise in the U.S., according to a recent report...

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  Managed Care

  Convert Now To ICD-10 Coding

  August 12, 2015This newly published 2015 version of  the “Navigation Guide to Health Care Reform for Independent Optometrists,” was commissioned by Vision Source...

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  Insights From Our Editors

  What is the Impact of Health Care Reform on Eyewear Purchases?

  By Carole Burns, OD, FCOVD, and Mark Wright, OD, FCOVDJuly 15, 2015There hasn’t been too much of an impact yet on eyewear...

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  Insights From Our Editors

  How Many Children Are In Need of an Eye Exam?

  By Carole Burns, OD, FCOVD, and Mark Wright, OD, FCOVDJuly 1, 2015Research cited by Vision Source's Navigation Guide to Health Care Reform...

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  Managed Care

  Providing Essential Pediatric Vision Benefits:

  July 1, 2015This newly published 2015 version of  the “Navigation Guide to Health Care Reform for Independent Optometrists,” was commissioned by Vision Source...

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  The Optometric Minute

  Fixing a Broken Health Care System

  June 17, 2015: Jim Greenwood, president and CEO of Vision Source, explains how independent ODs can best serve patients and grow their...

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  Insights From Our Editors

  Can ODs Re-Engage Patients with Chronic Medical Conditions?

  By Carole Burns, OD, FCOVD, and Mark Wright, OD, FCOVDJune 3, 2015Optometrists have a key role to play as part of the...

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  Insights From Our Editors

  Growth of AMD: How Many More Cases Should We Expect?

  By Carole Burns, OD, FCOVD, and Mark Wright, OD, FCOVDApril 15, 2015Medical eyecare that addresses age-related macular degeneration will be in ever...

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  The Optometric Minute

  Growth Opportunities from the Essential Pediatric Benefit

  March 4, 2015: Linda Chous, OD, owner of The Glasses Menagerie in Minneapolis, welcomes the essential pediatric eyecare benefit as a positive...

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  The Optometric Minute

  Most Viewed Videos of 2014

  In 2014, ROB featured videos providing insight from fellow optometrists on subjects ranging from staff management, to enhancement of the medical model,...

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  The Optometric Minute

  Prepare for a HIPAA Audit

  Scott A. Jens, OD, FAAO, CEO of RevolutionEHR, advises ODs to prepare for a potential HIPAA audit. He provides tips on how...

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  The Optometric Minute

  Embracing the Medical Model: Three Videos with Randolph Brooks, OD, FAAO

  In addition to providing routine vision care, optometrists are increasingly challenged to participate fully in medical model optometry. Embracing the medical model...

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  News Briefs Archive

  New Report: 2014 Managed Vision Care Patient Experience Study

  How do patients perceive their experiences when using vision coverage? This is among the many questions related to managed vision care answered...

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  Insights From Our Editors

  How Will the Affordable Care Act Affect Your Practice?

  By Carole Burns, OD, FCOVD, and Mark Wright, OD, FCOVDNearly half of patients don’t feel that the Accountable Care Act (ACA) will...

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  The Optometric Minute

  Prepare Your Practice to Be Included in ACOs

  Randolph Brooks, OD, FAAO, advises optometrists to engage in the medical model to be in a position to be included in Accountable...

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  Managed Care

  Vision Insurance: Work With the Plans That Are Profitable

  By April L. Jasper, OD, FAAOProfitably working with insurance companies is a key to practice survival. Here is how to ensure your...

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  Managed Care

  Major Implications of Health Care Reform–for Independent ODs

  Vision Source commissioned Review of Optometric Business to create the “Navigation Guide to Health Care Reform for Independent Optometrists,” a report summarizing...

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  Managed Care

  Major Implications of Health Care Reform–for Independent ODs

  Vision Source commissioned Review of Optometric Business to create “Navigation Guide to Health Care Reform for Independent Optometrists,” a report summarizing important...

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  The Optometric Minute

  Prepare for Health Care Reform: AOA Resources

  Christopher J. Quinn, OD, FAAO, a trustee of the American Optometric Association, encourages ODs to embrace changes that are coming with health...