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As ophthalmic practices continue to face decreasing profit margins, the Academy continues to offer lean principles that can make a dramatic difference in your practice. Focusing on small, incremental changes can produce immediate results. AAOE will provide 52 Weeks of Lean tips in 2023 to help you improve efficiency and maximize profitability.
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5 Proactive Credentialing Tips for Physicians

DEC 01, 2022 in Contracts, Billing, Practice Operations, Managing Your Practice, Financial Management

The Academy shares tips to help ensure that your practice can be reimbursed by payers for the services you provide to patients and avoid lost time while waiting to be credentialed.

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Tips for Navigating Pediatric Ophthalmology Insurance Contracts

SEP 06, 2022 By Heather Hambrick Dunn, COA, OCS, OCSR, Gil Weber MBA in Practice Ownership, Financial Management, Managing Your Practice, Contracts

With the revalued strabismus surgery codes, it is a good time to focus on pediatric ophthalmology and how contracting efforts can differ for this subspecialty.

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Viewpoint: 7 Tips for CV Building for Young Ophthalmologists

JUL 11, 2022 By Jill Maher, COE, MA in Contracts, Professional Growth, Managing Your Practice, Viewpoint

How much time does an employer typically spend reviewing your curriculum vitae? Just six seconds on average. Here are a some tips to make your CV stand out from other applicants and keep them reading.

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The Value of Communication in Landing Your Dream Job

JUL 08, 2022 By Jill Maher, COE, MA in Professional Growth, Contracts, Managing Your Practice

To land your dream job, you need to communicate effectively throughout the entire process. Here are some considerations as you begin your career in ophthalmology.

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Tips on Landing Your First Job as an Ophthalmologist

FEB 10, 2021 By Jill Maher, COE, MA in Professional Growth, Contracts, Managing Your Practice, Coronavirus, Practice Operations

Making the right decision can be a daunting task when assessing job opportunities. AAOE reached out to Jill Maher, MA, COE principal consultant and owner of Maher Medical Practice Consulting, to get her views on how practice hiring has changed during the pandemic. Maher has…

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Negotiate Vendor Contracts to Boost COVID-19 Recovery

SEP 24, 2020 in Practice Operations, Contracts, Coronavirus, Strategic Planning

As ophthalmic practices continue down the road to recovery, focusing on overhead and improving the bottom line is a priority. Many strategies for efficiency can reduce overhead along with revisiting all practice expenses. Negotiating vendor contracts and requesting reduced c…

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Structuring Physician Employment Agreements: What's Best for You and the Practice

FEB 26, 2018 in Webinar-Webcast, Contracts

What are the current "normal" employment agreement terms for an associate joining a practice? Are these norms changing in light of health care reform and changing economics? Employment agreements are important and need to be competitive and appropriately protect the interest…

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New Associate Contracts: What's Typical? What’s Fair?

FEB 20, 2018 in AAOE Program Highlights, Contracts

Become familiar with the range of terms presently being offered to quality candidates in today's competitive marketplace during this AAO 2017 course. Learn national norms for salary, incentive bonus, benefits, business expenses, and what needs to be said about future buy-in…

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Ophthalmic Buy-In and Pay-Out Arrangements for an Uncertain Future

FEB 12, 2018 in Contracts, AAOE Program Highlights

Learn how to structure buy-in / payout arrangements that are fair and reasonable, both to practice owners and to joining or departing ophthalmologists and understand ophthalmology practice goodwill values.

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Are You Covered? What Your Documents Should Say About Governance, Buyout, Termination, Compensation and More

FEB 12, 2018 in Contracts, AAOE Program Highlights

Key provisions that should be found in every ophthalmology practice's governing agreements include work effort, compensation, buyout, management and voting, termination and withdrawal, non-compete or non-solicit, and right to engage in side businesses. This AAO 2017 course w…

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Medicolegal Issues in the Era of Electronic Health Records

FEB 12, 2018 in AAOE Program Highlights, Contracts

Using actual claims and lawsuits relating to EHRs, OMIC risk management specialist, Michele Pineda, MBA will provide examples of where documentation can go wrong, causing patient harm, help you recognize what malpractice attorneys look for in good medical record documentatio…

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Partnership Pitfalls: Preparing for the Unexpected

FEB 12, 2018 in AAOE Program Highlights, Contracts

Are your corporate, partnership, or LLC agreements as thorough and comprehensive as they need to be? This AAO 2017 course highlights various issues and circumstances typically overlooked in group practice co-ownership agreements, and addresses how to effectively prepare for…

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What Associates Need to Know to Avoid Signing a Bad Employment Contract

JAN 17, 2017 in AAOE Program Highlights, Contracts

What are the current “normal” employment agreement terms for an associate joining a practice? Learn what is a fair and reasonable new associate employment arrangement from experienced attorneys / consultants with more than 50 years combined experience.

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Best of E-Talk: Patient Co-Management

NOV 03, 2016 in Practice Operations, Best of E-Talk, Contracts

Question: Is it safe to assume that a referring physician is always co-managing or should we call his or her office to make sure?

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Contract Negotiations and Fee Schedules in Alternative Payment Models

FEB 18, 2016 in Alternative Payment Models, Contracts

Under accountable care organizations and other alternative payment models, ophthalmology practices face new relationships and operational challenges. The Academy had lawyer Brenda N. Laigaie of Wade, Goldstein, Landau & Abruzzo, P.C. address three common issues: contract neg…

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Mergers and Tax IDs Explained

FEB 18, 2016 in Contracts, Alternative Payment Models

Some ophthalmology practices consider merging to improve leverage with payers. If your practices chooses to merge, you have to decide whether to do so under different tax IDs and or a single tax ID. Lawyer Brenda N. Laigaie of Wade, Goldstein, Landau & Abruzzo, P.C. explains…

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How to Handle Drug Costs Under Alternative Payment Models

FEB 18, 2016 in Contracts, Alternative Payment Models, Practice Ownership

Under some alternative payment models, ophthalmology groups are asked to both contract for physician issues and physician-administered drugs and to assume risk for modification of their choice of drugs. Lawyer Brenda N. Laigaie of Wade, Goldstein, Landau & Abruzzo, P.C. disc…

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Payer and Insurer Ratings

FEB 18, 2016 in Contracts

Both insurers and the federal government increasingly use ratings systems to help inform consumer decisions. Under the Affordable Care Act, website like Physician Compare publish performance data obtained from programs like meaningful use and the Physician Quality Reporting…

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Evaluating Payer Contracts and Relationships in Today’s Health Care Environment

APR 30, 2015 in Alternative Payment Models, Contracts

With the backdrop of narrowing networks, rate cuts and potential reimbursement penalties, more than ever, practices must have a strategy in place related to their payer contracts. As practices are being asked to take bundled rates and share in financial risk that has traditi…

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Medicare Advantage Contracting — Frequently Asked Questions

AUG 24, 2014 By Catherine I. Hanson in Contracts

Generally speaking, a Medicare Advantage contract is just like any other managed care contract. As Medicare Advantage penetration increases, so does the importance of these contracts.

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