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Medicine seeks to halt to mandatory PECOS enrollment
> PECOS deadline delayed (CMS Update, Nov. 23, 2009)

Practice expense update phase-in

Academy interprets necessity of DMEPOS surety bond

CMS releases final 2010 Medicare ASC payment rule

Medicare targets ASCs in infection-control efforts

Academy, AOA call on FTC to reinstate contact complaint process

AMA clarifies Medicare Advantage fraud training 

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View the Academy's new Eye on Efficiency web page

H1N1 ("Swine") Flu guidance for practices

Presentations as presented during the 2009 AAOE Program:

• The Efficient Retina Practice (1.8M)
• Small Single Specialty ASC (355K)

AAO membership survey demographic data (PDF 350K) View slides from the Academy's 2007 U.S. members/fellows survey.

SimplifEye™ Ophthalmic Purchasing Program Member's only purchasing program features a special ophthalmic formulary.

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NEW! Improve your practice's bottom line with seven ophthalmology-specific financial management guides. AAOE's The Profitable Practice Collection available now.

The AMA's "Heal that Claim"™ Campaign offers useful tools—such as a physician claims process check-up and the Claims Workflow Assistant denial management tool—to help physician practices become more efficient and reduce claims processing costs.

Academy/AAOE benchmarking survey

Hot tips to boost your bottom line View summary of ideas to increase revenue and reduce expenses from a recent E-Expert discussion on tips to boost your bottom line.

Health Insurer Settlements - Read information on AMA web site

Financial Management Spreadsheets (Courtesy of Walt Underwood, FACMPE):

• P&L Summary Template (XLS 772K)
• AR Analysis Template (XLS 1.4MB)
• Practice Report Card Template (XLS 21K)
• Move Checklist Template (XLS 50K)

Forms (AAOE member login required)

• Download and customize sample practice forms. The forms provided are only a few of over 300 forms offered as part of Practice Forms Master. To order or learn more visit the Academy store.
  
  
  • Account Receivable Worksheet
  • Collection Target Worksheet
  • Past Due Account Letter
  • Patient Flow Worksheet
  • Refraction Service and Fee Document

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 AAOE Library

NEW! Business Operations and Finance article archive View back issues of AAOE and Academy publications organized by topic.

AAOE News Read latest issue.

Executive Update Archive View every Executive Update issue February 2003 to current.

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