Miki Lyn Zilnicki, OD, FCOVD

Billing and coding for co-management can be tricky. Learn the necessary steps for ensuring both parties are properly compensated for their time and expertise.

The biggest decision when starting a vision therapy clinic is deciding to take insurance or not. Here is what Dr. Miki Zilnicki considered when it came time to make that decision.

Contact lenses serve as a critical tool in a specialty care practice. Learn how to approach the use of contacts in a different way to better serve unique patient populations to improve vision and visual function.

Billions of people suffer from presbyopia. We have tools to manage symptoms, but is there more that we can do? Check out all of the options below to discuss with your patients about combating this sign of aging.

Whether or not you work in vision development, you should check out the wealth of resources from COVD.

Being the doctor is the easy part of running a practice—the hardest is finding and retaining staff. By making these small changes within your office, your staff will be happier, things will run smoother, and you will ultimately increase your practice efficiency and bottom line!

When opening an optometry practice cold, mistakes are bound to happen. To prevent others from making the same ones that cost me valuable time and money, I share three mistakes I made and my solutions!

What do you need to consider when starting a vision therapy practice?

Managing patients with traumatic brain injury can be challenging. Here are four important things to keep in mind when attempting to help these patients.

Opening a private optometry practice cold can be overwhelming. Here are important tips and questions answered by a new grad who opening his office cold!

As a new grad, patients with strabismus can be intimidating despite all of your clinical education. Here are the basics to handling these patients.

Here are my top 3 reasons as to why new graduates should consider pursuing a fellowship in an area that they are most passionate about.

For any optometry practice owner, tracking growth is critical for the success of your business. Here is a two step process to help you understand key data!

Here's how you can decide what electronic medical record might be best for your practice, and some of the pros and cons of the most commonly used EMRs.

I opened a private optometry practice cold without an optical. Here are the main advantages and reasons why I decided I did not want or need an optical.

Here are several ways to obtain money in order to fund your new optometry practice.

Here you'll find a detailed invoice of what it cost to open my new optometry practice cold.

These are seven questions my partner and I answered to help develop our business model to open our optometry practice cold.

Find success and fulfillment by identifying your roles, values, and primary aim.

Find out what tests are most effective for visual perceptual workups within your vision therapy practice!

Here is a list of my top five ways to learn and stay connected with the advancements in vision therapy and rehabilitation.

Staying connected to your vision therapy patients through emails, reports and Facebook gives you the opportunity to stand out among your peers!

Learn how vision therapy can successfully treat these special populations: traumatic brain injury, autism and learning disabled patients.

I want to share with you what I believe is the truth about corporate optometry. Your career path is wide open with an endless amount of options and opportunities.

How many vision therapy sessions does it take to treat a patient? This is a how-to guide to help answer that question for vision therapy practices.

The following is a guide highlighting some of the most critical vision therapy normative values. A must have for any vision therapy doctors.

Here I will teach you my favorite methods for getting vision therapy referrals into my office. I practice vision therapy in Long Island, NY and get lots of referrals.

A step-by-step guide on how to create a business plan for vision therapy. Included are start up costs, calculations of revenue, expenses and profits and examples.

My goal over the next year is to bring my optometry readers on my journey of creating a vision therapy business within an already existing practice and walk you through the process of actually doing it. Look out each month for a new article about bringing VT to your practice!