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Largest optometry physician group practices

Targeting physician groups can be a strategic advantage for your marketing efforts. These organizations often centralize their purchasing decisions, allowing you to capitalize on bulk sales and establish long-term partnerships through a single marketing connection. Given these benefits, it’s all the more important to be efficient and effective in your sales approach.

When selling your healthcare product, software, or service to physician group practices, it’s important to narrow your scope and create a targeted list of potential clients. This helps you find leads most likely to benefit from your offerings.

Physician group size and specialty are two useful methods for narrowing down your target list. If one physician in a group can benefit from your offerings, it’s likely others can as well. Thus, the larger the physician group, the more locations and physicians that you can connect with.

Depending on your product, service, or technology, focusing your marketing efforts on the largest optometry physician groups may yield significant results.

How many optometry physician group practices are there in the U.S.?

Our database shows there are 9,769 active optometry physician group practices in the U.S. However, physician groups often have several different locations to access more patients and remain competitive. Because of this, the number of physician group practices does not reflect the number of optometry practices in the United States.

Why target optometry physician groups?

Targeting a private practice doctor versus a hospital or health system can make it easier for you to reach executives and decision-makers. Since many private practice doctors are part of a physician group, they should be a key target for your marketing efforts.

As for optometry physician groups, they are specialists in treating conditions of the eye. To care for these conditions, optometrists require the proper technology, equipment, and staff training—it’s only when they have all three of these needs met that they can improve their patients’ health outcomes and quality of life.

Furthermore, large optometry physician groups, with a greater number of physicians and clinics within their network, can present significant sales opportunities.

Largest optometry physician group practices by number of physicians

RankOptometry physician groupStateDefinitive ID# of providersExplore dataset
1Lone Star Circle of CareTX55303166Explore
2Nova Southeastern University College of Ostheopathic Medicine Physicians PracticeFL66474650Explore
3Barnet Dulaney Perkins Eye CenterAZ59948544Explore
4Pacific Cataract & Laser Institute Inc PCWA55282635Explore
5Southwestern Eye CenterAZ95716735Explore
6Physician Partners of AmericaFL84762434Explore
7Midwestern University ClinicsAZ69901634Explore
8Berkeley Eye CenterTX95603527Explore
9Bay Area Community Health (AKA Tri-City Health Center)CA97514126Explore
10Tukel Eye CenterMI66590324Explore
11WesternU HealthCA105309522Explore
12Harlem Health CenterNY103277121Explore
13Harman Eye CenterVA95585521Explore
14Northwest Eye SurgeonsWA69379520Explore
15Riverside-San Bernardino County Indian Health IncCA87115420Explore

Fig. 1. Data is from the Definitive Healthcare PhysicianGroupView product. The number of practices represents only those listed as “active” in our database as of August 2024. Data accessed August 2024.

What is the largest optometry physician group in the U.S.?

Lone Star Circle of Care is the largest optometry physician group in the country based on number of physicians, with 66 physicians.

Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine Physicians Practice has the second-largest number of physicians, with 50 physicians.

Finally, Barnet Dulaney Perkins Eye Center has the third largest number of physicians, with 44 physicians across its 24 clinics and eye surgery centers.

Interestingly, each optometry physician group does not have as many physicians as you may see in physician groups of other specialties, but there are numerous physician groups to partner with, allowing you to hone in on the physician groups that serve as the greatest potential connection.

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