The optometric industry is losing its independence. Frames suppliers that seem bent on monopolizing the industry are rapidly expanding retail operations that create employee doctors. They bought vision plans and began diminishing reimbursements to doctors and minimizing benefit to patients. …
We received notice from Walman Optical that they will no longer be collecting or subsidizing your NVCP dues. This means that work sent to Walman will no longer put you on the higher tiered reimbursement schedule. With the large conglomerates flexing …
“By joining forces today, these two international players can now accelerate their global expansion,” said Hubert Sagnières, the Essilor chairman and chief executive, in a news release about his company’s approaching merger with the manufacturer of seventy percent of the …
Are your office’s struggles the same as others? Judging by the uniform responses to the year end survey we sent out two weeks ago, optometrists throughout the US are all in the same boat. Our thanks to those of you …
Let’s start with the bottom line. An insurance company is not an optometrist. When any outside agency becomes directly involved in choosing what is best for an individual patient based on a statistical average, patient health outcomes invariably suffer. In …
Not so long ago, and probably not so far away from where you are reading this right now, there was a neighborhood drug store run by an independent pharmacist. Patients came to the pharmacy and were able to discuss their …
IECP is an organization created to do anything possible to preserve the practice of independent optometry. If you’d like to see this way of serving patients stick around, rather than go the way of independent pharmacies, here are a few ways to …
Are you overlooking a key market in your dispensary? In the optometric marketplace, failing to provide an offering to as many segments of your market as you can is not only leaving money on the table, it’s poor patient service. …
As you know, remakes are costly. When a lens or frame doesn’t satisfy a patient the effort required to create a remake hurts the production flow of the lab, causes difficulties for the practice, and inconveniences the patient. The cost …
From the optometric oath: “I WILL advise my patients fully and honestly of all which may serve to restore, maintain or enhance their vision and general health.” How many of your contact lens patients do you believe should have back …
