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We are just getting started, but have many new customers working toward an operational in office refractive center. More personal testimonials will be posted in this section of our web site as they come in. However, here are some quotes taken from a recent article in Ophthalmology Management, written by Paul Dougherty, MD...


"Implanting a phakic IOL can safely be done in a clinical setting. Many surgeons can use their Class B operating rooms (designed for cataract surgery) for this purpose. Other surgeons and laser vision centers will have to add an in-office suite that complies with federal regulations in order to offer phakic IOL implantation on the premises."


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Gordon Binder & Weiss Vision Institute in LaJolla, CA

During this years ASCRS meeting; EyeOR took the opportunity to talk with the surgeons and administrative management at Gordon Binder & Weiss Vision Institute in LaJolla. This practice was one of the first in the country to work with EyeOR in the development of their own office based surgery suite for lens-based refractive procedures. Click here to see the video interviews we did during our visit to this center and learn more about how this new EyeOR suite has changed the way they practice. You will recieve insight on the EyeOR operation from Jack Weiss, MD, Cindy Haskell, Adiminstrator, and Cathi Lyons, COT and operating room manager. You can also see a video featuring the process of providing an intraocular refractive procedure on a presbyopic patient from check in to post-op recovery....click here to see the videos.


The In-Office Advantage - Paul Dougherty, MD

Performing surgery in your own office or clinic has a number of advantages:

  • Being able to work with a hand-picked and personally trained staff will help to produce better results and lead to optimized quality of care. In contrast, working with a different scrub nurse on any given day in a shared operating room environment can reduce your efficiency and increase your rate of complications.
  • Your patients benefit from a continuity of care; they see the same staff on the day of surgery and at all of their postoperative visits.
  • An in-office O.R. offers financial benefits. You don't pay a fee to an outside facility, so the additional income stays in your center.
  • Being able to handle other procedures between ICL cases helps to generate more revenue for the practice.
  • Because it's your own surgical suite, you can control the level of organization and turnover time. Typical turn-over time at an average non-surgeon-owned ASC can result in case speed as slow as one case per hour. By contrast, in our in-office surgical suite we can operate on three LASIK patients (six eyes) per hour. Using the same surgical staff, we expect to be able to implant at least two ICLs per hour.

Potential Payoff: High

In-office implantation of phakic IOLs will give refractive and cataract surgeons in the United States a potentially lucrative new option in their treatment armamentariums. If you're looking for ways to enhance your practice's appeal, increase practice income and enlarge your patient base, it's definitely an option worth considering.

Dr. Dougherty is medical director of Dougherty Laser Vision in Los Angeles, Camarillo and Santa Barbara, Calif. He is a principal investigator for the U.S. clinical trial of STAAR Surgical's ICL for the treatment of hyperopia. Some information in this article was provided by Mike Grasham of EyeOR. Contact Mike Grasham to learn more about this client and others we have worked with. Click Here