Practice Management

 

When Disaster Strikes

Are you prepared for unexpected absences and natural disasters that can disrupt or shut down your practice and/or your entire community? This white paper address planning for business continuity regardless of emergency.

Disaster Preparedness Guide

Although there is not much you can do to prevent a disaster, with a little advance planning and common sense, much can be done to protect your loved ones and yourself in a time of crisis. This supplement and checklist provides you with a basic plan for surviving a disaster and disruption to your business.

Optometry Budget Tool 2.2

This MS Excel-based budget tool–custom-designed for CPN members-provides an effective means to take your CPS data and Income Statement to generate budget scenarios for up to five years. Full flexibility allows you to enter Revenue, Variable Cost, and Fixed Cost categories. Budgets can be freely formatted for printing and graphing. The tool is suitable for existing practices for up to 4 owners and 2 employed O.D.s. (Requires Excel 2003 or higher.)

Real Estate Project Analyzer 2.0

This MS Excel-based tool custom-designed for CPN members-allows you to analyze a possible investment in a new facility for your practice. The model takes into account over 15 variables to help calculate the number of additional daily exams required to cover the investment in a new building. (Requires Excel 2003 or newer.)

Medical Advancement Plan for Optometry (MAP) Manual

The MAP manual is a roadmap for the eye care practice of the future. Written by 15 highly successful, medically-oriented optometrists, this one-of-a-kind resource tells you how to build a Medical Model practice that enables you to increase revenue by $100,000 with the same patient base you have now. Covers facilities, instruments, technology, staffing issues, medical coding, building MD referral relationships, prescribing habits, obtaining hospital and nursing home privileges. Loaded with hard-to-find information and resources to help you succeed better than you ever imagined.

Getting Stuff Done

It's often easy to come up with great ideas for improving your optometry practice. What's much harder to do is actually implementing them. The good news is that most independent optometry practices do not need the complexity of a big project management system. The Getting Stuff Done manual, written by Rich Heiland, helps you manage multiple priorities and focus on tasks with the most return for your effort. In it, he explains a "storyboarding" system that will improve your team's brainstorming by connecting idea generation to accomplishing actual goals. 

Sample Optometric Financial Statements

The purpose of an income statement is to show whether your practice made or lost money during a given period being reported. This is in contrast to a balance sheet which is a summary of a practice’s assets, liabilities, and ownership equity balances at a single point in time. Here are some examples, specific to an independent optometry practice.