John Pinto’s Little Green Book of Ophthalmology

Strategies, Tips and Pearls to Help You Grow and Manage a Practice of Distinction

John B. Pinto

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781040142370
• Edition: 6
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Opthalmology & Optometry

The classic reference text for surgeons and managers alike that has been improving ophthalmic practices for decades, John Pinto's Little Green Book of Ophthalmology: Strategies, Tips, and Pearls to Help You Grow and Manage a Practice of Distinction, Sixth Edition, has been updated into a new edition.

Author John B. Pinto, a world-renowned expert on the business of ophthalmic practice, has brought his decades of expertise to bear in this comprehensive guide to practice management. Inside, Pinto covers everything from the basics of business planning to esoteric and complex topics unique to ophthalmology.

Topics include:

• Strategic business planning
• Leadership, governance, and discipline
• Finance, accounting, and patient accounts management
• Staff evaluation, training, and supervision
• Marketing and development
• Managing physicians
• Operations enhancement
• Facility design and management
• Improving an optical dispensary

This Sixth Edition features updates and edits throughout the book as well as 9 new appendices covering the latest trends and advice in ophthalmic administration. It is also designed in a flexible format, allowing readers to read it straight through, or just hunt down advice on the focused problems facing their practice.

As the business of ophthalmology continues to change, the proven guidance of John Pinto's Little Green Book of Ophthalmology, Sixth Edition, will help any practice adapt and thrive.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Pinto’s Ten Commandments
• Chapter 1 Strategic Business Planning
• Chapter 2 Leadership, Governance, and Discipline
• Chapter 3 Finance, Accounting, and Patient Accounts Management
• Chapter 4 Staff Evaluation, Training, and Supervision
• Chapter 5 Managing Physicians
• Chapter 6 Marketing and Development
• Chapter 7 General Operations Enhancement
• Chapter 8 Facility Design and Management
• Chapter 9 Adding or Improving an Optical Dispensary
• Chapter 10 Clinical Management Pearls
• Chapter 11 Mergers and Acquisitions
• Chapter 12 Provider Career Issues
• Chapter 13 Succession and Retirement Planning
• Afterword
• Postscript
• Appendix A The Ophthalmic Personality: How to Harness the Strengths and Overcome the Obstacles of Being (or Working for) Some of the Brightest Humans on the Planet
• Appendix B Strategic Resource Assessment: How to Find Wha’s Missing From Your Practice
• Appendix C Scoring the Quality of Your Life
• Appendix D Is Our Practice Going to Be Okay? A (Relatively) Simple Practice Performance and Viability Index
• Appendix E Herve Byron’s Practice Evaluation: A Patient’s Checklist
• Appendix F Making Better Practice Management Decisions
• Appendix G Leadership Skills Assessment for Lay Managers and Providers
• Appendix H Helping Your Managers Manage: Hallmarks of Superior Supervision
• Appendix I How to Find and Reform or Eliminate the Weakest Members of Your Practice Team
• Appendix J Reverse Engineering From Your Personal Financial Plan to Your Practice’s Business Tactics
• Appendix K Making a Smooth Transition From Solo to Group Practice
• Appendix L Pinto’s Practice Development Doctrine: Five Easy Rules to Help You Have Fun and Stay Out of Trouble as You Grow
• Appendix M Getting Things Done: The Art of Prioritization and Implementation
• Appendix N Retinal Practice Performance Benchmarks
• Appendix O Practice Performance Benchmarks
• Appendix P Pinto’s Surgical Assertiveness Index
• Appendix Q The Twin Bridges Protocol: A Proposed Methodology to Measure and Improve Cataract Surgeon Skills
• Appendix R Signposts of Surgeon Career and Life Happiness
• Appendix S Improving Practice Board Meetings
• Appendix T Twenty Rules for Group Practice Harmony
• Appendix U Recognizing, Revising Common Adverse Ophthalmologist Behaviors
• Appendix V Is Eye Care Slowly Industrializing?
• Appendix W The Benefits of the Physician–Administrator Dyadic Leadership Model
• Appendix X Success Factors for Making Mergers Work
• Appendix Y Eight Guidelines for Better Practice-Wide Communication
• Appendix Z Assessing the Effectiveness of Your Staff Hiring and Management Practices
• Appendix AA Key Concepts to Enhance Profit Growth
• Appendix AB Heads Up: Ten Things Every Owner Should Know About Their Practice
• Appendix AC Excess Task Loading: An Overlooked Dimension of Provider and Practice Stress
• Appendix AD The Biology of Practice Business
• Appendix AE Great Staffing Habits for a Healthy Practice
• Appendix AF Seizing Life in Paris, Seizing Life in Your Practice
• Index