Retention IQ
Built for optometry & vision practices

Your patients have $240 of unused benefits.
Most have no idea.

Optometry patient retention software tracks each patient's VSP, EyeMed, or Davis Vision benefit year — frame allowance, contact lens benefit, exam window — and drafts personalized outreach when it's about to reset. It also handles annual exam recall, contact supply re-orders, and the highest-converting Q4 expiration campaign in the practice.

Three planning tools: Book Value, Drift Radar, and Voice Training. Source-system fit and healthcare readiness are confirmed during the managed launch before a covered workflow is activated.

Healthcare readiness gated BAA before approved PHI flow Booking safeguards reviewed
Premium optometry exam room with phoropter and dispensing display
Illustrative scenario
$184,200
unused benefit, expiring before Dec 31
The benefit-year clock

Four cadences, all on different timers.

Annual exam, frame allowance, contact supply, and benefit-year reset — each on its own clock. The engine watches all four per patient.

Annual eye exam
12 months

Per-patient anniversary from last exam date. Fire at month 11 to land before the next year's calendar fills.

Frame allowance
24 months (most plans)

VSP/EyeMed typically allow new frames every other year. Track to the exact reset date by plan, not generic.

Contact supply
10–12 months

Re-order reminder at month 10. References last brand, quantity, and Rx — not 'we miss you'.

Benefit-year reset
Dec 31 (most)

Q4 expiration campaign starts Oct 1. The single highest-converting cadence in optometry.

Illustrative planning scenario · 90 days

What a 90-day plan could look like.

Formula-driven scenario for a hypothetical 2,000-patient practice using editable frame and exam values. These are not customer outcomes.

Week 1
Setup

PMS export uploaded. Benefit data parsed. First-pass dormant book sized.

Setup
Weeks 2–4
First campaign

Q4 benefit-expiration sequence fires to ~600 patients with unused frame allowance.

14% reactivation
Weeks 5–8
Drift Radar tunes

Per-patient cadence learned. Contact supply and exam-recall sequences come online.

$42K recovered
Weeks 9–12
Measurable recovery

Day-end exports show recovered revenue traceable to specific messages. Compounding effect kicks in.

$87K total
12-month scenario output
$284,000
modeled output from the displayed assumptions
ROI vs cost
22 : 1
modeled first-year ratio
Patients reactivated
~640
modeled completed returns

Scenario notice: Illustrative inputs only—not observed Retention IQ customer results, industry benchmarks, or a guarantee. Replace the rate, benefit, ticket, reachability, consent, cancellation, no-show, and completion inputs with measured practice data.

What your mornings actually look like

Open the app. See who's about to lose benefits.

Frame benefit · expires in 47 days SMS draft
Jennifer M.
VSP · $240 frame allowance · last exam Jun 2024
Benefit value
$240

"Hi Jennifer — Dr. Patel's office. Quick heads-up: you have $240 of VSP frame benefits still available, and they reset on December 31. We've got new arrivals from Maui Jim and Lindberg in this month. Want me to set up a Saturday appointment? — Marisol"

Contact supply · Month 10 trigger Email draft
Marcus T.
Acuvue Oasys 1-Day · 12-month supply purchased Sep 2024
Re-order value
$520

"Hi Marcus — you should have a few weeks of Acuvue Oasys 1-Day left from last September's order. Want me to put the same 12-month supply on order so it arrives before you run out? Same Rx, free standard shipping. Just reply YES and I'll handle it."

Drafts use only permitted, minimum-necessary data for the approved use case. Production delivery remains disabled until sender, consent, suppression, opt-out, and channel-readiness checks pass; the customer controls campaign approval.

Trained on what you actually run

Speaks vision insurance, not 'business in general.'

It knows VSP plan years differ by employer. It knows EyeMed has separate frame and contact benefits with separate reset dates. It knows Davis Vision allowances by group. You don't have to teach it.

Carrier & benefit tracking

  • VSP (Vision Service Plan)
    Plan-year tracking by employer group. Frame allowance ($150–$250 typical). Lens enhancement coverage. Contact lens allowance separate.
  • EyeMed
    Independent frame vs contact lens benefit tracks. In-network vs out-of-network allowance. Plan-year vs calendar-year by employer.
  • Davis Vision
    Tiered network frame allowances. Material co-pay tracking. Lens-only vs full-package benefit windows.
  • Spectera / Superior Vision
    Specialty plan tracking. UHC and Anthem-integrated vision benefits handled separately.
  • Self-pay & FSA
    Patients without vision insurance flagged for FSA/HSA reminder campaigns in Q4 (frames + Rx sunglasses are FSA-eligible).

Operator intelligence

  • Per-OD scorecards
    Multiple ODs in the practice — each with their own patient book, exam pace, and rebook rate. Role-fair benchmarks.
  • Q4 campaign auto-scheduling
    Benefit-expiration sequence starts Oct 1 automatically. Tiered urgency: 60 days out, 30 days out, 14 days out. Stops firing once patient books.
  • Contact supply revenue
    Re-order reminders at month 10 of a 12-month supply. References specific brand, quantity, and Rx. Conversion 22–35% on the first message.
  • Cross-sell that isn't pushy
    Frame buyers ready for Rx sunglasses. Annual-exam patients due for retinal imaging. The engine knows pairings that convert in optometry without feeling salesy.
  • Source-of-truth booking
    Never holds calendar locks. Re-reads your Eyefinity / RevolutionEHR / Crystal PM availability live before every write. Audit-logged with 7-year retention.
Works with your optometry PMS

No rip-and-replace.

We connect via CSV export or direct integration. Your booking, Rx writing, and eligibility verification stay exactly as they are today. See the integration architecture →

Eyefinity
RevolutionEHR
Crystal PM
MaximEyes
OfficeMate
Compulink
My Vision Express
+ any CSV
Optometry FAQ

The questions every OD asks.

01 How much unused vision benefit is sitting in a typical optometry practice's patient book?
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There is no universal unused-benefit or booking figure. The practice must calculate a planning estimate from its own eligible population, benefit fields, consent, average completed-service value, cancellations, no-shows, and year-end capacity. Retention IQ separates that scenario from verified completed returns.
02 Does Retention IQ work with VSP, EyeMed, and Davis Vision?
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Yes. We integrate with the optometry PMS systems that already store carrier and benefit data — Eyefinity (VSP-owned), RevolutionEHR, Crystal PM, MaximEyes, OfficeMate, and Compulink. The PMS already runs eligibility verifications and stores annual frame allowance, contact lens benefit, and exam date. We read that data via CSV export or direct integration; nothing changes on the eligibility-verification side.
03 How does the booking integration work without disrupting our schedule?
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Retention IQ never holds calendar locks. Every booking attempt re-reads your booking system live before writing, uses idempotency keys so retries can't duplicate, and is logged to an immutable 7-year audit trail. Your front desk wins every race because they're writing directly to the source of truth and our system has to re-verify first. See the architecture diagram at /trust/no-double-booking.
04 Can Retention IQ support a covered optometry workflow?
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Only after a healthcare-readiness review. Before PHI moves, the applicable BAA, permitted data flow, minimum-necessary scope, subprocessor agreements, and eligible service configurations must be verified.
05 What about contact lens supply re-orders?
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Where the approved source data supports it, contact-lens supply timing can be modeled separately from exam recall. The practice sets the cadence and message-content rules. Re-order conversion must be measured from its own completed orders; Retention IQ does not claim a universal rate.

Built for clinical practices from day one.

Patient data is PHI. A BAA is executed after healthcare-readiness review and before any of it moves. Infrastructure: AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit, audit-logged access with 7-year retention. Outreach messages never reference Rx details, procedure codes, or clinical findings — they reference 'your benefits,' 'your annual exam,' 'your contacts.'

Comparisons

How Retention IQ compares for optometry

Side-by-side breakdowns of TechStack Retention IQ against the patient-comms and recall tools optometry practices most often evaluate.

See your practice's real dormant-benefit number.

15-minute sample-data walkthrough. If the workflow fits, we validate permitted data, consent, BAA terms, and subprocessor readiness before patient data moves.

15 minutes · no sales pitch Works with your booking platform HIPAA · BAA available