Practice Management Consultants Bill Rabourn and Joel Nunneley recommend these strategies for developing relationships with co-managing physicians.

• Assure them that you provide quality care.
You can accomplish this by recording patient outcomes and satisfaction levels, and sharing this information with co-managing physicians. A refractive surgery coordinator can help you build a patient tracking system that will document outcomes and satisfaction ratings.
• Design a continuing-education course around the needs of co-managing O.D.s.
This will establish you as an authority, and help keep referring doctors on the cutting edge of technology.
• Educate staff and potential patients.
Have your refractive surgery coordinator visit the offices of referring doctors and educate staff about refractive surgery procedures. Provide them with educational materials to give to their patients.