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Join us for VSP 101: Essential Medical Eye Care and Coordination of Benefits—a hands-on workshop built to help you turn complexity into clarity.   

During this 2.5 hour complimentary event, you’ll gain actionable insights and key takeaways to help your practice increase revenue, patient retention, and patient satisfaction.    

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VSP 101: Essential Medical Eye Care and Coordination of Benefits - Buffalo, NY

When: Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 5:30 PM

Where: Buffalo Marriott Niagara, 1340 Millersport Highway, Amherst, NY 14221

Parking: Complimentary self-parking.

Contact: uuniversity@vsp.com

Meet the Speaker

Ryan Ames, OD, MBA

Ryan P. Ames is an optometrist in Oshkosh, WI, and owns InSight Eye Care with two locations. He studied at Drake University, Illinois College of Optometry, and earned an MBA from the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh. Dr. Ames practices full-scope optometry, has held multiple leadership roles in the Wisconsin Optometric Association, and serves as Third-Party Chair and consultant. He consults for RevolutionEHR and contributes articles to industry journals. Outside of work, he enjoys time with his family, shares updates on his campervan project, and flies his 1963 P-35 Bonanza airplane.
Ryan Ames, OD, MBA

Frequently Asked Questions

This is a complimentary event. There is no cost to doctor-owners and their staff members.

Registration is open to all doctor-owners and staff members from each practice who coordinate benefits when billing VSP. Each attendee should register separately.  

VSP 101: Essential Medical Eye Care and Coordination of Benefits will provide actionable insights and key takeaways that you and your staff can immediately implement in your practice to increase revenue opportunities, patient retention, and patient satisfaction.  

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for complimentary dinner and networking time with fellow attendees. The workshop runs from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.  

The goal of this workshop is to provide you and your staff with helpful resources to make it easier to run your practices and work with VSP.

UUniversity is a streamlined, personalized online training and education experience. It combines existing and to-be-developed learning content from across VSP lines of business including PECAA, VSPOnline, and the previous iterations of UUniversity and Premier Edge™ Training and Education into one destination for both VSP network and non-network learners.