Optometry Billing Intelligence
97.3%
First-Pass
Acceptance Rate

We bill like your revenue depends on it. Because it does.

$142K
Avg. revenue recovered, year one
14 days
Avg. reimbursement turnaround
2,400+
CPT codes audited monthly
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HIPAA Compliant
EHR-Agnostic Integration
Works with your system
Revenue Recovery
$142K
average recovered
in year one
Recovered from denied claims$68K
Prevented undercoding$41K
Payer contract optimisation$33K
Case Study

From 71% to 97%
in one billing cycle.

A three-provider practice in suburban Ohio was running a 71% first-pass rate — losing $14,200 per month to preventable denials on routine exams, contact lens fittings, and medical eyecare visits.

Within 30 days of onboarding, our CPT audit flagged 23 habitual undercoding patterns across their three most-billed payers. We corrected the fee schedule, rebuilt the modifier logic, and resubmitted 6 months of stacked denials.

Month two reimbursement rate: 96.8%. The practice recovered $142,400 in year one — without adding a single new patient.

Dr. Rebecca Osei, OD
3-provider practice · Dayton, OH
Reimbursement Speed
14
days average
reimbursement turnaround
Industry comparison
Clarity14 days
Industry avg.32 days
Self-billed47 days
From Submission to Deposit

A clean claim moves
at the speed of clean code.

Day 0
Claim submitted
Clean code, correct modifier
Day 3
Payer acknowledgement
100% electronic submission
Day 9
Adjudication complete
Zero pended claims
Day 14
EFT deposited
Full contracted amount
What slows most practices down

Missing modifiers, stale fee schedules, and payer-specific rules that change quarterly. We track all 47 major vision and medical payers so your staff doesn't have to.

Denial Intelligence

We know exactly
why claims get denied.

Aggregated from 2,400+ monthly CPT audits across optometry practices. Updated quarterly with payer-specific rule changes.

Top Denial Reason Codes — Optometry

Q4 2025
CO-4Modifier inconsistent with procedure28%
CO-97Payment included in allowance for another service19%
CO-16Claim/service lacks info required for adjudication16%
CO-50Non-covered service12%
CO-11Diagnosis inconsistent with procedure9%
OtherAll other denial codes16%

CO-4 and CO-97 account for 47% of all optometry denials. Both are preventable with correct modifier application at time of coding — not after denial.

Payer-Specific Acceptance Rates

Clarity-billed claims · Last 90 days

VSP Vision Care
98.1%
EyeMed
97.6%
Aetna Medical
96.9%
UnitedHealthcare
96.4%
Humana Vision
95.8%
Blue Cross Blue Shield
95.1%
Our average across all payers
97.3%
vs. 83.1% national optometry average

Monthly CPT Audit Results

2,400+
Codes audited monthly
99%
Audit accuracy rate
23
Avg. corrections per practice
48h
Audit-to-correction cycle

Built for Every Optometry Practice Model

Independent ODs

Solo and two-provider practices billing medical and vision — we handle both payer tracks without confusion.

Small Group Practices

3–8 providers with complex scheduling, multiple NPI numbers, and payer credentialing that never seems to end.

Office Managers

Stop toggling between three systems before lunch. One integration, one dashboard, one source of billing truth.

Practice Assessment

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Revenue Report

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2024 Optometry Billing Benchmark Report
32 pages · PDF · Updated Q4 2025
Inside this report:
National first-pass acceptance rates by payer
Top 15 denial codes with prevention guides
Fee schedule benchmarks for 50+ CPT codes
EHR-specific coding error patterns

Download the 2024
Billing Benchmark

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600+
Practices benchmarked
47
Payers tracked
12 mo.
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