Latest Reports

The “2024 United States Refractive Atlas” provides a geographic analysis of the US refractive market in 85 metropolitan areas. Market Scope’s MedOp Index™ Analysis is used to identify the potential for refractive surgery and considers many factors for each geography, including:  population age distribution, refractive error, income/buying power, overall health, education level, and location of refractive surgeons and LVC centers. High-opportunity populations and benchmarking comparisons are provided for each metropolitan area. Additionally, the atlas provides a comprehensive directory of all US practices offering refractive surgery. Market Scope also offers customization of atlas data to align with sales territories or specific geographic areas.

The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the 2023 global market for ophthalmic surgical instruments—both reusable and disposable—and forecasts market performance over the next five years. Important trends, market drivers, and key factors for future success are discussed. The report offers an overview of ophthalmic surgeries and surgery volume worldwide, as well as an in-depth look at providers of cataract surgery, the most commonly performed ophthalmic surgery. Product demand is forecast in units and dollars, and market shares are analyzed by product category. The report profiles 31 market competitors—with discussion of their products, strategic market position, background, and outlook—and lists 85 total companies involved in the market segment.

The “2023 United States Retina Atlas” provides a geographic analysis of retinal treatment opportunity and key demographic metrics in 85 US metropolitan areas. Market Scope’s proprietary MedOp Index™ Analysis examines market potential and provides a benchmark against other metros. The Retina Atlas offers strategic insights into the top potential markets in the US by providing:

• Demographic information of selected metropolitan populations
• Profiles of selected metropolitan areas and applicable retinal treatment opportunity
• Current estimates for retinal surgery volume by metropolitan area
• Current estimates for retina surgeons by metropolitan area
• Comprehensive directory of US ophthalmic practices performing retinal IVTs and vitrectomies

The “2023 US and Western Europe Cataract Pharmaceuticals Market Report” offers an in-depth examination of the current cataract pharmaceuticals market in the United States and Western Europe and forecasts market performance over the next five years. The report analyzes the current market and forecasts units, average sales price, and revenue through 2028 by product category. It analyzes products currently on the market and examines the development pipeline, discusses the popularity of intracameral injections and fixed combination eye drops, and analyzes the roles of brand name medications, generics, and compounded formulations.

The “2022 United States Glaucoma Atlas” provides a geographic analysis of the glaucoma population and treatment opportunity in 85 US metropolitan areas. Market Scope’s proprietary MedOp Index Analysis™ analyzes market potential and provides a benchmark against other atlas metros. The atlas offers strategic insights into the top potential markets in the US, which companies often use throughout the development and commercialization processes to identify ideal clinical trial locations, develop launch strategies, define sales territories, allocate resources, and optimize sales and marketing initiatives.

Market Scope surveyed US ophthalmic surgeons during March and April 2022 to measure perceptions of practice patterns, product market share, and plans for the coming year. We received 119 responses from doctors performing cataract procedures, representing over one thousand total doctors in single doctor and group practices.

We have conducted annual surveys of US cataract surgeons on important issues regarding practice characteristics, product preferences, surgical techniques, and practice marketing since 2001. This survey highlights practice patterns regarding presbyopic-correcting IOLs (PC-IOLs), toric IOLs, extended depth of focus (EDOF) IOLs, correction of astigmatism, femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery (FLACS), sugical location, interest in upcoming technology, equipment use, treatment and management of glaucoma and micro-invasive glaucoma survery (MIGS) devices and much more. It measures market share by manufacturer, product, and market segment. Leading ophthalmic firms and organizations sponsor the survey in order to better understand industry dynamics and gain important insights into surgeons’ experiences and preferences, as well as emerging trends. 

The “2022 India Ophthalmic Market Report” analyzes the current landscape of the Indian ophthalmic market, discussing important trends and key factors for future success, and includes forecasts of disease prevalence, numbers of treatments, and technologies used in treatments. The report analyzes the Indian markets for diagnostic equipment, lasers, cataract, refractive, cornea, glaucoma, retina, dry eye, surgical instruments, and single-use surgical devices. Thirty market competitors are profiled, with discussion of their products, strategic market positions, background, and outlook.

Market Scope surveyed 105 ophthalmologists and orthopedic surgeons on March 24, 2020, to measure the impact of COVID-19 on their surgical practices and perceptions on how long the effects of the pandemic would impact their practice. The results of this survey are included in this report, which is being offered free of charge as a courtesy to our clients.