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Office meetings provide a way for you and your team to maintain focus on your team goals and help identify problems that threaten your optometric practice’s ability to meet those objectives.

Also, weekly meetings are a great way to strengthen a team's bond. Meetings may seem like they are going strong in the beginning, over time you will find that participation is starting to wane. When your staff members stop engaging in your team meetings, it could snowball into to other problems like missed goals, staff turnover, and errors due to decreased communication.

To help revive the energy in your optometric practice team meetings, we’ve provided a few tips below.

Disagreements in the workplace can slow down your office workflow and add stress to your entire optometric practice. Although your staff may get along 95% of the time, there will always be times where conflicts arise. When your staff has disagreements, you have to resolve them quickly before they impact your entire team, your workflow, and your profits.

Below are conflict resolution tips to keep the peace in your optometric practice.

In the eyecare industry, managing claims is an important piece of the revenue stream; especially as more online retailers cut into your frame sales.

However, many practices struggle to effectively turn their electronic claims into revenue from payers, forcing the practice to write-off services or charge the patient more than they were expecting.

This post shares some strategies your optometric biller can use to turn electronic claims into money.

Halloween is just around the corner. And, we at VisionWeb couldn’t think of anything more frightening than a payer slashing through your revenue by denying your electronic claims and delaying revenue. To shine a light on your claim nightmares, we’ve put together a few solutions to the most common claims management fears.

Below are some of the haunting reasons for denied claims.

Is stress getting to you and your staff members? While the end of the year is usually a busy time for your optometric practice, it can also lead to an increase in stress. As the stress continues to build, mistakes can be made, and employee turnover rates can increase as burnout possibilities intensifies.

To combat the effects of mounting stress in your optometric practice, try some of the following group activities to decrease stress and improve employee satisfaction.