Boise, Idaho-based Hollingshead Eye Center installed the WaveLight Refractive Suite for Lasik surgery.
Ophthalmology
EyePoint Pharmaceuticals reported $8.6 million and $20.4 million in fourth-quarter and 2019 revenues, respectively.
COVID-19 poses little risk to ophthalmology and its patients, despite the high global and national public health threat, the Ophthalmology Times reports.
Three recent ophthalmic ASC and practice acquisitions:
Opthalmologists feel like they are spending too much time with paperwork and experiencing EHR burnout like other physicians, yet they maintain a lower level of burnout compared to other physicians, according to Medscape's 2020 ophthalmologist lifestyle, happiness and burnout report.
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The Vision Center Network of America is the first and only clinically integrated network for ophthalmic ASCs, according to the Ophthalmic ASC magazine.
Annapolis, Md.-based Vision Innovation Partners went through an identity crisis before establishing its current moniker, but the growing mid-Atlantic private equity platform is establishing a stronghold in the region with no plans of stopping.
Vision Innovation Partners continues to grow across the Mid-Atlantic region, this time acquiring Baltimore Eye Physicians March 2.
Ophthalmologists generate over $1 million for hospitals, on average according to a survey conducted by physician search firm Merritt Hawkins.
Private equity firms MoonSail Capital and Plenary Partners partnered with Chicago Eye Institute and Arbor Centers for EyeCare, forming a Chicago-area investment platform called Ocular Partners.