A Year-End Checklist

A look at the business items optometrists should complete to finish the year and set the course for 2020

Get Your Diagnostic Ducks in a Row

Use checklists for guidance on the maintenance and procurement of diagnostic equipment in 2020 and beyond

Take Advantage of Tax Deductions

Opportunities abound for business-related expenses

Transition Out of Practice

How we went about selling our practice

Add a Specialty

How three optometrists successfully incorporated niches within their practices

Utilize Personality Tests for Leadership

Tests can help optometrists both be better leaders and identify team leaders for their practices

When Price is a Concern

How to address those patients who express concerns over the cost of therapy you prescribe for them

Bolster Compliance With Communication

Effective patient education tips the scale of medication adherence in the right direction

O.D. to O.D.

REMEMBER TO INVEST IN YOU

Viewpoint

PREPARE FOR A FANTASTIC 2020

LEADING OFF: WHO Report Shows Significant Need for O.D.s

LEADING OFF: Daily Contact Lens for Myopia Receives FDA Nod

LEADING OFF: NECO ‘Lifts up the Hood’ for Industry Meeting

LEADING OFF: MYOPIA NEAR AND DEAR TO ACADEMY 2019 MEETING

LEADING OFF: Also Notable

LEADING OFF: CEO Challenge: Simplify Your Patient Education

CLINICAL: Cornea

Paradoxical Punctal Occlusion

CLINICAL: Contact Lenses

Planning for the Future

CLINICAL: Dry Eye

Embrace DED Diagnosis

CLINICAL: Retina

Bad Blood

CLINICAL: Glaucoma

Right the Past’s Wrong Approach

BUSINESS: Strategies

Sail Through a Profitable 2020

BUSINESS: Practice Insights: Vision Specialists of Michigan

Care for Vertical Heterophoria

CLINICAL: Optical

Failures and Refunds

BUSINESS: Coding Strategy

Employ Self-Audits

BUSINESS: Social Media

Social Media Toolkit

What’s new

For Your Patients and Practice

Focus

Goal: Satisfied Patients

Month Summary

December Issue Tips