MarketScope

Ophthalmic Surgeons' Quarterly Report

Give your practice the Market Scope Advantage with products and services from Market Scope, the industry leader in information and analysis.

The Market Scope Advantage is designed to help you, the surgeon, make informed decisions that will build your practice and expand your knowledge of the ophthalmic industry. The Market Scope Advantage gives you access to the most current industry information. This valuable information will help you:

Benchmark your performance. Examine your volume levels in relationship to other practices, and compare them with levels in previous quarters. Check key indicators, including conversion rates and percentages of patients financing surgery.

Make marketing decisions. Evaluate technology purchases, advertising methods, and the effectiveness of your marketing strategies, etc.

Set prices and establish pricing policies. Learn the percentage of refractive surgeons who use a single-price strategy, and the percentage of cataract surgeons who charge extra for LRI to correct astigmatism after cataract surgery.

Review issues regarding the practice of medicine. Learn about enhancement rates, rates of surface ablation, and frequency rates for mixing and matching IOLs.

Market Scope is a research and consulting firm focused exclusively on the ophthalmic business. We have been conducting surveys and providing valuable information to the ophthalmic industry for 10 years. We survey and publish reports covering all segments of the ophthalmic industry, and we monitor and forecast performance in ophthalmic markets throughout the world.

More than 2,600 US ophthalmic surgeons rely on Market Scope data to help shape the decisions in their practices. These surgeons have completed more than 13,500 Market Scope surveys during the past 10 years. The Wall-Street Journal, Eye World, the New York Times, USA Today, Ocular Surgery News and many other publications often quote Market Scope data. Ophthalmic companies and financial analysts look to Mark Scope for the latest market shares and trends.

How do I get the Market Scope Advantage? Would you like to join the ranks of surgeons who count on Market Scope for vital quarterly information? Follow the steps below or feel free to call our office. We are always glad to help!

• Complete our confidential quarterly surveys and you will automatically receive our report as soon as the information is analyzed.

 

• If you don't currently receive our survey, please complete our online survey, or send us your updated contact information so that you will receive our next survey. Surveys are mailed at the end of every quarter (March, June, September, and December).

 

• Contact our office (314.835.0600) and we will mail or fax to you our most recent survey and provide you with online access to the Market Scope Advantage.

 

• Is your practice outside the United States? We collect information from practices in other parts of the world, too! Click to go to our international survey.

Many ophthalmologists call on us when developing presentations for ophthalmic professional meetings, to support media requests, or for patient seminars. Are you making a presentation and need some additional data? Contact us and Market Scope will try our best to help you out.

Frequently Requested Data:

- Cumulatively, more than 27 million laser vision correction procedures or 15 million patients have been performed globally through December 2007.
- Approximately 1.4 million laser refractive procedures were performed in the US during 2007.
- Approximately 3.0 million cataract procedures were performed in the US during 2007

At Market Scope, we understand the importance of privacy and confidentiality and we place the upmost value on the trust of our survey participants and clients. Individual responses to our surveys are held in strictest confidence, and all survey analysis and reports contain only summary information based on all survey responses or on segments with a sufficient number of responses to mask individual survey responses.

All surveys are assigned a unique identifying number and are entered into our proprietary data base. Our database is password protected and stored on our network server which is firewall protected. Surveys are preserved in paper format only until completion of our analysis and then they are shredded and recycled using a local service company.