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March 17, 2025
By Larry Golson, OD
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EDGEPro is a powerful practice management analytics software designed to help eye care practices monitor and enhance their business performance. It offers a range of benchmarks to assess various aspects of practice management and can be used to track specific metrics measuring myopia management success. Clinically, assessing myopia control efficacy is achieved by monitoring variables such as refractive error, axial length growth, and visual function.
Five Metrics for Myopia Management Success
From a practice management perspective, let’s look at five metrics that can be used with the EDGEPro to track success.
- CPT Codes Associated with Myopia Management. In my practice, we use a CPT code with a specific modifier easily identifying that a contact lens evaluation was performed for myopia management. Using EDGEPro’s CPT Breakout report, we can determine how many contact lens evaluations for a given time period were performed. We track the number of contact lens evaluations on a quarterly and yearly basis to determine “lives” we’ve impacted by treating this condition compared to the same time period in the prior year.
- Sales of Myopia Management Materials. Whether it’s MiSight 1 day* or OrthoK lenses, EGDEPro can run reports to show not only the unit quantity but also the dollar amount these sales have contributed to a practice over a period of time. As with the CPT code metric, year over year time periods can be compared.
- Age Demographics. Since myopia management is geared toward our younger than 18 patients, EDGEPro can filter age to give an overview of this aspect of a practice. The number or percent of this demographic may lead to various marketing strategies to bring a higher number of these patients to a door, and/or to internally market to existing adult patients to encourage parents (or grandparents) to schedule their children for a yearly comprehensive eye exam.
- Comparing Age Demographics. Not only can EDGEPro give details on a specific age demographic, but a practice can also compare different age demographics such as age 4 to 16 versus age 27 to 54. In this way, the number and ratio of kids, tweens and teens to adults can be tracked over time to see if in fact the children of adult patients are being scheduled and seen more consistently. Specific prescription tracking over time can then be cross referenced with an EHR to determine the effectiveness of myopia management over time for various age ranges. You can also get an idea of age of myopia onset by reporting on the ICD-10 code of H52.13.
- Revenue Per Patient (RPP). EDGEPro allows a practice to determine this important metric which is generated by dividing the total collections in a given time period by the number of comprehensive eye exams delivered. Comparing RPP in children with and without myopia management can give you an idea of the impact of change myopia management is making among patients, as well as the practice financially.
Providing Quality Myopia Care
Myopia management has evidence-based implications for improving both a patient’s long-term vision and ocular health outcome. In addition, the financial health of a practice can be measured, monitored and improved through offering this service to your community of patients. Based on past performance, EDGEPro allows a practice to set goals each quarter, and for a given year, to continue to grow this aspect of primary eye care. The key to success, as with any metric, is to review data on a regular basis, determine which factors are influencing those metrics and set a course with specific action planning for improvement.
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Dr. Larry Golson is a 2002 graduate of Southern College of Optometry. He moved to Asheville, North Carolina in 2006 and is the owner of Envision Innovative Eyecare & Eyewear. Dr. Golson is a sought-after industry and practice consultant. |
*Indications for Use: MiSight (omafilcon A) daily wear single use Soft Contact Lenses are indicated for the correction of myopic ametropia and for slowing the progression of myopia in children with non-diseased eyes, who at the initiation of treatment are 8-12 years of age and have a refraction of -0.75 to -4.00 diopters (spherical equivalent) with ≤ 0.75 diopters of astigmatism. The lens is to be discarded after each removal.
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