How many cases does your OBS suite need?

Enter your own volumes, pricing and costs. The calculator compares performing these cases in your own office-based surgery suite against taking them to an ASC, and shows the monthly case count where the suite pays for itself.

Enter your monthly case volumes. The calculator compares performing these cases in your own office-based surgery suite against taking them to an ASC, and shows the monthly case count where the suite pays for itself.

Start from an example
Start here: your practice's numbers
Fill in the blue boxes
ProcedureCases / moPatient premiumLens cost
Premium IOL, presbyopia-correctingInsured cataract
$
$
Premium IOL, toricInsured cataract
$
$
Standard IOLInsured cataract
$
$
ICL and RLECash pay
$
$
ASC fee and equipment payments
ASC facility fee, phaco and microscope
$
$/mo
$/mo
Estimate monthly payments from equipment price
$
$
%
%
mo
Phaco: $0 /mo
Microscope: $0 /mo
Volume scenario and growth
Stress-test the plan
%
Reimbursement and patient fees
Applied to insured cataract cases
$
$
What the patient pays at the ASC
Coinsurance and anesthesia
$
%
$
Start-up investment
One-time costs to open the suite
$
yrs
$
yrs
Other monthly costs
Rent, staff and supplies
$/mo
$/mo
FTE
%
$
$
Laser add-on (optional)
Femtosecond cases, counted on top of the cases above
$
$
$
Break-even
Break-evenCovers monthly costs
3cases / mo
Paid back in 5 years
10cases / mo
Paid back in year 1
8cases / mo

5-year extra profit compared to the ASC
$0
after start-up costs
Months to earn back your investment
0
at your volume
Extra profit per case
$0
compared to the ASC, before monthly costs

What more cases would earn

5-year projection

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Illustrative only. Results are based on the volumes you enter and typical costs for an EYE SUITES office-based surgery suite. This is not a quote, guarantee or financial, tax or legal advice.

More detail

Return on investment, month-by-month payback, per-procedure and patient cost breakdowns, and how this is calculated
Annual return on your investment (5-year IRR)0%

Earning back your investment

Running total of extra profit after the start-up investment. Where the line crosses zero, the suite has paid for itself.

Extra profit by procedure

What each case adds in the suite compared to the ASC, before monthly costs.

What the patient pays

Out-of-pocket facility cost for an insured cataract case.

How this is calculated

  • The surgeon's professional fee is the same in either setting, so it is left out. Only what changes between the suite and the ASC is counted.
  • Cash cases save the ASC facility fee. Insured cataract cases add the lens reimbursement and the patient OBS fee. Every suite case uses surgical supplies.
  • Premium lens costs are carried by the practice in both settings, so they cancel out. A standard lens is supplied by the ASC there and by the practice in the suite.
  • Equipment payments are estimated as a standard loan payment on price plus sales tax, over 5 years unless you enter a different term.
  • Start-up costs are spread over the years you choose. Payback and rate of return treat them as paid up front.
  • Volume grows by the same number of cases each year, equal to the growth rate times year 1 volume.

Illustrative only. This is a planning example built from the assumptions entered, not a quote, guarantee or financial, tax or legal advice. Reimbursement figures are national averages and vary by payer and region.