Practice Management News

In spite of the rash of current snow storms, spring is right around the corner. Punxsutawney Phil, in fact, predicted that it will be coming sooner than we might think.

by Agustin L. Gonzalez, OD, FAAO

Meghan FitzGerald has joined the board of directors; Mike Bono has been named CFO and will oversee the administrative, financial and risk management operations of the company; attorney Michael Dell has been appointed general counsel, a newly created position; Erika Jurrens has joined as senior vice president of strategic development and commercialization; Aaron See is now senior vice president of manufacturer partnerships; Paul Sherman has taken a new position as chief development officer.

NEW ORLEANS – Michael A. Kling, OD, shared the financial pearls and system that turned his practice around, allowing him more financial freedom and the ability to acquire five practices in Southern California, at the MedPro360 session at SECO.

The Arkansas House Committee on Public Health, Welfare and Labor failed to pass proposed legislation that would have expanded the types of ophthalmic surgery performed by optometrists, to permit certain prescriptions and administration of certain pharmaceuticals, and to modernize the practice of optometry in the state.

NEW ORLEANS – The medical model of eye care is doctor-patient centric and entails dilated eye exams, problem-focused care, therapeutics, treatment strategies, contact lens fitting and doctor-driven dispensing of optical lenses and frames, Maria Sampalis, OD, said here at SECO.

NEW ORLEANS — The last few years have demonstrated that optometry is attractive to private equity. Experts here at SECO delved into why it is attractive and, more importantly, whether it should be attractive to you.

The rate of burnout among U.S. physicians dropped in 2017 but still remains above 40%, according to findings published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

NEW ORLEANS —Because of the “cash flow pinch” and because, “growth as a business is not linear,” optometrists must create a system that makes practice profit a decision and reduce practice debt, a speaker said here at SECO.

NEW ORLEANS – Eye care is experiencing a wave of effects from the fourth industrial revolution resulting from “superintelligence” like robotics, AI and nanotechnology, according to David Heath, OD, EdM, FAAO, president of the State University of New York College of Optometry, here at SECO.