What Could an Additional Envi Exam Lane Mean for Your Practice?
For practices looking to increase capacity, improve patient flow, and leverage imaging technology, adding another exam lane can create meaningful opportunity. Here is one example of what that opportunity could look like.
Adding another exam lane is about more than adding equipment. It can give your practice more capacity to see patients, keep appointments moving, and expand imaging capabilities.
The financial impact will look different for every practice. That is why the numbers below are presented as one example scenario, not an expectation.
Your schedule, patient volume, payer mix, average collections, and imaging opportunities may all look different. This example simply shows what the capacity of an additional Envi exam lane could support under one specific set of assumptions.
One Example Scenario
See what the capacity of an additional Envi exam lane could support using the assumptions below.
One Complete Envi Exam Lane
The lane used in this example represents a $34,560 complete exam lane investment and includes the equipment needed to create a functional exam room.
Each component serves a different purpose, but together they support the same result: giving your practice the capacity to complete patient visits.
See What the Capacity Could Support
Exam Capacity
At 10 completed exams per day, five days per week, over 50 operating weeks, an additional lane could support 2,500 completed exams per year.
This example uses an average collected amount of $61 per completed exam.
The $61 figure is simply an input used for this scenario. Some practices may collect less, while others may collect considerably more depending on payer mix, medical billing, private-pay services, and participation with third-party plans.
Enview Imaging Opportunity
At 10 eligible imaging sessions per week over 50 operating weeks, the lane could support 500 imaging sessions per year.
This example uses an average collected amount of $20 per eligible imaging session.
Eligible imaging creates another potential opportunity while keeping digital imaging directly within the exam lane workflow.
One Investment. Built to Support Every Patient Visit.
Capacity creates the opportunity. Completed visits and eligible imaging create the revenue.
The chair and stand may not generate separate billable charges, but they are essential to every exam completed in the room. A functioning lane gives your practice the capacity to see patients, maintain workflow, and support the revenue generated from those visits.
Every completed visit helps pay for the full lane.
Digital Imaging Built Into the Exam Lane
The Envi Enview Imaging System adds digital slit lamp imaging directly to the exam lane.
- 12-megapixel image capture
- Five-step magnification
- Infrared meibomian gland imaging
- External photography
- Integrated and external LED illumination
- One-handed joystick capture
- Automatic magnification and eye recognition
- DICOM 3.0 compatibility
These capabilities can support anterior segment documentation, meibomian gland evaluation, patient education, and a more efficient imaging workflow.
One Example of What That Capacity Could Support
This is one scenario based on the assumptions shown. Your practice may look different.
At the modeled activity and collection levels, gross revenue in this example would equal the initial equipment investment in approximately three months. This compares modeled gross revenue with the equipment purchase price and is not a calculation of net profit.
What This Example Could Support Over Time
If the same patient volume, imaging volume, and example average collections continued, modeled cumulative gross revenue would be:
| Time in Practice | Modeled Cumulative Gross Revenue |
|---|---|
| 1 Year | $162,500 |
| 3 Years | $487,500 |
| 5 Years | $812,500 |
The equipment investment happens upfront, but the capacity created by the lane can continue supporting patient visits, clinical workflow, documentation, and eligible imaging year after year.
These figures are not intended to suggest that every practice will see the same result. They show what this specific example could support if the assumptions remained consistent.
What Could an Additional Exam Lane Mean for Your Practice?
- Increase patient capacity
- Improve patient flow
- Reduce room and scheduling bottlenecks
- Equip another provider or exam room
- Replace outdated or unreliable equipment
- Add digital anterior segment imaging
- Strengthen clinical documentation
- Create another potential imaging opportunity
The revenue opportunity is the result of how that added capacity is used. That is why the example above is only a starting point.
Your Next Exam Lane Works for You
Every practice has a different schedule, patient volume, payer mix, imaging opportunity, and average collected amount.
The best way to understand what an additional Envi exam lane could mean for your practice is to build a projection using your own numbers.
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This article presents an illustrative gross-revenue scenario only. The example assumes 10 completed exams per day, 5 operating days per week, an example average collected amount of $61 per exam, and 10 eligible Enview imaging sessions per week at an example average collected amount of $20 per session over 50 operating weeks. These figures are modeling assumptions and are not guaranteed reimbursement or collections.
Actual patient volume, fees, eligibility, payer policies, coding, medical necessity, documentation, collections, staffing, financing, taxes, supplies, maintenance, expenses, and financial results will vary. This model is not a guarantee of reimbursement, revenue, profitability, or return on investment.
