Specialties · Optometry / Ophthalmology

We understand optometry & ophthalmology practices.

Two insurances on the same patient. An optical dispensary attached to a medical office. A contact lens subscription business hiding inside the schedule. The complexity is unique — and so is the leakage if the front desk misses any of it.

Optometry sits at a strange intersection. The medicine is real — glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, dry eye disease, post-op follow-up. The retail is real — frames, lenses, contact lens orders, optical dispensing. And both businesses run through the same front desk.

That means the same staff member who's verifying a VSP vision benefit at 9:02 is, at 9:04, taking a medical referral for a retinal consult — and at 9:06 telling a patient about their frame allowance. Three transactions, three different insurance setups, three different documentation requirements. One opportunity to make a mistake that doesn't surface until the claim comes back denied four weeks later.

This is the front desk Sage Health was built to support.

Five things only an eye care practice has to manage.

01
Dual insurance verification — vision and medical, same patient.

Routine refraction is billed to the vision plan (VSP, EyeMed, Davis, Spectera). The moment a diagnosis becomes medical — diabetic eye exam, sudden vision change, glaucoma follow-up — it shifts to the medical plan. The front desk has to know which is which at the moment of booking. Get it wrong and the patient is angry, or the claim walks out the door.

02
Frame and lens benefit verification is a per-plan minefield.

Each plan has its own frame allowance, lens upgrade coverage, anti-reflective coating rules, and benefit reset cycle (some calendar year, some 12-month rolling, some 24-month). Quoting wrong at the optical dispensary loses the patient's trust and often the sale. Verifying right takes a phone call most front desks can't make at scale.

03
Contact lens orders are a hidden subscription business.

Annual supply orders, manufacturer rebates, auto-ship enrollment, prescription expiration, online competitor pressure. Done well, contact lens revenue compounds. Done badly, the patient buys from 1-800-CONTACTS and the practice never recovers the relationship.

04
Recall scheduling for annual exams is the practice's heartbeat.

In optometry, the annual exam is the engine that runs everything else. Miss it and you've lost a year of frame purchases, contact lens orders, and clinical follow-up. Recall has to be active, not passive — and timed against benefit reset cycles, not just calendar dates.

05
Optical dispensing hand-off is where the revenue closes — or walks.

The exam ends and the optical conversation begins. The patient who isn't physically walked over to optical loses the practice the second-largest revenue line in the visit. The hand-off is the close — and most front desks have no SOP for what should happen in the 90 seconds it takes.

Autonomous AI mapped to optometry workflows.

Dual-insurance verification, optical-attach attention, and recall-driven outreach built for the way an optometry front desk actually runs.

Agents Suite

Autonomous AI agents for optometry.

  • Voice agent books eye exams, contact-lens evaluations, and medical visits — routing each correctly to vision benefits, medical, or both.
  • Smart confirmations remind patients about their frame/lens benefits and CL re-order cadence, not just the appointment time.
  • Eligibility intelligence runs dual verification — vision plan + medical — and surfaces frame/lens allowance, copay, and last-exam-date before the visit.
BI Agent

Real-time visibility into optometry metrics.

  • Optical attach rate — exam-to-frames-or-CLs conversion, by provider and patient cohort.
  • Dual-insurance denial patterns — surfaced before they become rework.
  • Recall-to-rebook conversion — track how many lapsed patients are coming back vs. silently aging out.
  • CL re-order revenue capture — patients overdue for a new supply, flagged with re-engagement opportunity.

Human-led operating discipline for optometry.

Audit of the optical dispensing flow, documented dual-insurance playbooks, and a 90-day plan to lift attach rate without burning the front desk out.

Evaluation Framework

Evidence-based assessment.

  • Half-day on-site observing the optical dispensing flow, dual-insurance verification, and CL re-order conversations.
  • Attach-rate audit against benchmarks — by provider, by patient segment, by frame brand.
  • Written findings with dollars-per-pillar leakage and specific lift opportunities for optical revenue.
Operational SOP Definition

Documented playbooks.

  • Frame/lens benefit playbook — how to present available benefits at the dispensary, not after checkout.
  • CL fitting follow-up workflow — when to re-contact, what to confirm, when to upgrade.
  • Recall-list cadence — annual exam, CL re-fit, frame replacement at benefit reset.
  • Dual-insurance verification protocol — what gets billed where, in what order.
Strategic Transformation

90-day execution roadmap.

  • Days 1–30: optical-dispensing SOPs and dual-insurance protocol installed.
  • Days 31–60: voice agent + dual-eligibility verification deployed.
  • Days 61–90: BI dashboards live for attach rate, CL re-order capture, and recall conversion.

What we measure in optometry.

Optometry's leading indicators are different from primary care's. These are the ones we track — with the target ranges we work toward.

95%+
Dual eligibility verified pre-visit (vision plan AND medical plan). The single largest source of optometry write-offs goes here.
75%+
Optical capture rate after exam. Means the exam-to-optical hand-off is actually working.
2×
Contact lens annual supply order rate vs. previous baseline, via active reminder cadence and benefit-reset-aware recall.
90%
Annual exam recall capture within 60 days of benefit reset. The single highest-leverage retention metric in optometry.

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