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Dedicated HIPAA-trained teams work inside your own Practice Director system, covering the front desk, recall, vision and medical plan verification, prior authorizations, optical billing, and AR. Flat weekly pricing from $299 per FTE (volume based), with a trained backup included at no charge. Live in 14 days.
The Work Your Team Does in Practice Director, We Staff
What Is Practice Director EHR?
Practice Director is an EHR and practice management system built for optometry practices and optical retail, created and owned by Williams Group, the eyecare practice management consulting firm based in Lincoln, Nebraska. In one system it covers appointment scheduling, exam charting with SOAP-style notes, e-prescribing, optical point of sale and inventory, insurance claims, patient recall tracking, a patient portal, document and image management, and reporting, and it is offered in both on-premise and web-based deployments.
Its consulting heritage shows: Practice Director is built for owners who manage by the numbers. That is also where the workload piles up. The recall list, the claims queue, the dispensary balances, and the reports each expect a person behind them, and in most independent practices the same two or three front-desk staff are that person for all of them. This service staffs the gap.
Who Is This For?
Optometry practices and optical retailers that run on Practice Director and are losing staff hours to it: solo ODs whose front desk juggles the phone, the exam lane, and the dispensary at once; group practices that need a dedicated billing desk; and multi-location owners who want recall, verification, and AR worked the same way at each location. It also fits practices that want their payer credentialing kept current without pulling anyone off the floor.
Where Optometry Practices Lose Time and Money
Vision plan portals, medical payer portals, and clearinghouse sites each hold a piece of the answer, and the front desk pays for it in minutes per patient, at the busiest hour of the day.
See the fixA single optometry patient can require both a vision plan check and a medical eligibility check, and doing both properly takes far longer than the appointment slot allows for.
See the fixRoutine exam or medical eye care? Bill the vision plan when it should be medical, or the reverse, and the claim comes back, the patient gets a surprise bill, and staff redo the work.
See the fixExams happen and glasses go out the door, but claims that got no follow-up quietly become write-offs nobody approved as a business decision.
See the fixFront Desk and Patient Records
Our team registers new patients and keeps Practice Director records clean: demographics, vision and medical insurance entry, responsible party, contacts, and scanned documents filed to the right chart through the system’s document and image management. Clean intake protects each downstream step, from the benefit check to the optical order to the claim, and it means the person at your physical front desk can stay face to face with the patient in the chair instead of the screen.
Scheduling and Recall
Optometry lives on the annual exam, which makes the recall list the most valuable list in the building. Our specialists work Practice Director’s scheduler and recall tracking daily: confirmation calls, reschedules, waitlist fills, and steady outreach to patients who are due or overdue, in your practice’s name. Practices that call their recall list consistently keep exam slots full; practices that do not watch open slots become the norm. We also run win-back outreach to patients whose prescriptions have expired.
Vision and Medical Plan Verification
Before the patient arrives, we verify both rails: the vision plan for the routine exam and materials benefits, and the medical plan for anything medical, then enter coverage in Practice Director correctly the first time. That single habit removes the multi-portal scramble from your front desk’s morning and takes away the most common source of optometry denials before it starts.
Prior Authorization
Medical eye care is where authorizations bite: cataract and IOL surgery, retina care and injections, glaucoma procedures, and imaging can all carry payer requirements. Our specialists prepare and submit the requests, document the outcome in Practice Director, and track expirations so approved care does not lapse mid-treatment. Your clinical team decides the care; we carry the paperwork to a confirmed authorization.
Optical POS and Dispensary Follow-Through
Practice Director’s optical point of sale and inventory side is half the business, and it generates its own admin tail: materials claims to vision plans, lab job status to chase, patient balances on eyewear, and inventory records to keep honest. Our team works that tail daily, because dispensary claims and balances are exactly what falls through the cracks when the optician is also the biller.
Claims, Billing, and AR
Can you outsource optometry billing on Practice Director? Yes. Dedicated billers work claims end to end inside your system: charge review, claim submission, payment posting, denial work, patient statements, and AR follow-up on both vision plan and medical claims, including the refraction split between medical and vision plan that trips up so many offices. Aged claims get called, not aged further, through structured AR calling and denial recovery.
Reports and Practice Admin
Practice Director’s reporting exists so an owner can manage by the numbers. We make sure someone actually runs them: production, recall performance, claims and AR aging, and the reports your manager reads, on a fixed calendar, with exceptions flagged to you rather than discovered at year end. Alongside reporting, we handle the quiet admin that keeps the practice billable, including support for credentialing paperwork with vision and medical payers.
Put a Dedicated Team on Your Practice Director Work
You have seen what we cover, from the front desk to the dispensary. Meet us, pick the seats you need, and watch a trained team work your own Practice Director queues before you commit to anything.
Book Your 2-Week Free TrialHow Our Teams Train and Go Live on Practice Director
New team members train on your Practice Director configuration before they touch production work: your SOPs, your appointment types, your fee schedules, and your payer mix, in supervised sessions with our trainers and your manager. Optometry fundamentals, vision plan versus medical billing, recall discipline, dispensary workflows, come from our eye care training track. Specialists work under an individual HIPAA agreement with named, auditable credentials, never shared logins, and a trained backup shadows the account from week one so coverage does not depend on one person.
Why Outsource Practice Director Work, and Why Staffingly
Most vendors sell optometry billing or a front-desk assistant. We staff across the workflow: front desk, recall, verification, prior auth, dispensary follow-through, and AR, so work stops falling between vendors.
Billing services priced as a percentage of collections grow their fee with your revenue. Our fee is a flat weekly rate per dedicated specialist, so the gains from cleaner claims stay with the practice.
Our eye care track drills the exact traps this page describes: vision plan versus medical, the refraction split, materials claims, and recall discipline, before anyone works your queues.
Most teams go live in about 14 days. 2-Week Free Trial. Replace any team member in 48 hours. 800+ providers served, 4.9 Google rating you can verify on our listing.
Process and Onboarding
20 to 30 minutes on Teams. We map your Practice Director queues and pain points before we meet.
Named Practice Director user credentials per specialist, least-privilege roles, your approval on every account, in your on-premise or web deployment.
Your SOPs plus our eye care training track; supervised production from day one.
Daily production reports, weekly KPI review, month-to-month after your 2-Week Free Trial.
Security and Compliance
HIPAA-trained staff. Business Associate Agreements executed with every client. Workflows designed to support HIPAA compliance, with SOC 2 Type II attestation, ISO 27001:2022, $5M E&O and cyber liability coverage, and named individual credentials with full audit logs. Read the complete program, including our corporate structure and evaluation framework, at HIPAA and Security at Staffingly.
Flat Weekly Pricing Per Dedicated Specialist
1 to 4 dedicated eye care FTEs.
5 to 9 FTEs.
10+ FTEs.
45 hours of coverage for less than others charge for 40.
$399 per week works out to $8.87 per hour across 2,340 hours of coverage a year, flat. Your dedicated specialist covers a 9 hour day, Monday to Friday, a full hour more than a standard shift: the day starts by clearing what arrived after you closed, overnight faxes, portal messages, and lab status updates, and it ends past your close so far less rolls into tomorrow. A trained backup steps in at no charge whenever they are out. Flat weekly fee per dedicated specialist, never a percentage of your collections, no setup fees.
Start with a 2-Week Free Trial. Month-to-month after, with no long-term contract.
- Salary + payroll taxes + benefits
- Recruiting + turnover replacement
- Training on eye care + your software
- Software seat + equipment + PTO coverage
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Practice Director Outsourcing: Frequently Asked Questions
What tasks can a virtual assistant do in Practice Director EHR?
Patient registration and record upkeep, appointment scheduling, recall outreach, vision and medical insurance entry and verification, prior authorization tracking, optical order and lab status follow-up, claims work, payment posting, patient statements, AR calls, and report generation. Anything administrative that happens inside Practice Director screens, a trained remote assistant can own.
Can you outsource optometry billing for a practice on Practice Director?
Yes. Dedicated billers work inside your system across both rails, vision plan and medical: charge review, claim submission, posting, denial recovery, statements, and AR follow-up, with daily production reporting.
Do you support both the on-premise and web versions of Practice Director?
We work in whichever deployment your practice runs. Access is through secure, named user accounts you approve, set up with your administrator during onboarding.
Can you verify both the vision plan and the medical plan before exams?
Yes, that is the default. We check the vision plan for exam and materials benefits and the medical plan for medical eye care before the visit, and enter both correctly in Practice Director so the claim starts clean.
Can you handle the optical dispensary side, not just the exam lane?
Yes. Materials claims, lab job follow-up, eyewear balances, and inventory record upkeep are part of the same coverage, because that is where optometry revenue most often leaks.
How do your staff access our Practice Director system?
Through named individual user accounts you approve, with least-privilege roles and auditable activity, never shared logins, and no offline exports of PHI.
How fast can a dedicated team start?
Most teams go live in about 14 days: access setup, workflow training on your SOPs, then supervised production. The engagement starts with a 2-Week Free Trial.
Do we keep control of our Practice Director system?
Yes. It stays your system, your data, your logins to grant or revoke. We work inside it and report daily; you can audit our activity at any time.
Eye Care Resources for Practice Director Practices
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Dan Nandan has spent 25+ years in IT consulting and healthcare BPO, was among the first in the US to build an RPO/BPO delivery network overseas, and has been featured in Computerworld. He runs the operations and the dedicated virtual teams behind the eye care workflows on this page, from vision plan verification to dispensary AR.
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