A fee on every visit
Your practice earns a share of every visit seen in your office.
How it works
You aren't building an after-hours program. You're plugging into one.
The partnership
A partnership, not a franchise.
We're not selling you software, a franchise or a course. We partner with one established practice per market. You provide the clinical space and doctors willing to cover a few evenings. We provide everything else: patients, intake, triage, scheduling, payment, technology and network operations. Everyone gets paid on the visits that actually happen.
For practice owners
What your practice gets
New patients, sent to you
UEC follow ups go to your partner portal for follow-up.
We market your practice for you
After the visit, we point each patient back to your practice to book their full exam.
Exclusive in your market
One partner practice per territory.
For associate doctors
Medical optometry on your terms, without the admin work.
Paid on every visit you see.
Choose your windows.
Protect the hours that fit your life. You pick them.
No billing, no front desk, no chasing payments.
Patients arrive triaged, scheduled and paid.
See the real numbers
Love it, but your owner decides? Send them the numbers. We’ll take it from there.
From the doctors
What doctors say about working with us.
Everyone was so grateful and the pay was outstanding.
Loved my experience with Urgent Eyecare! If you’re itching to see more red eyes, definitely give this a shot. I saw two corneal abrasions, a corneal ulcer due to contact lens overwear, bacterial conjunctivitis, and herpes simplex epithelial keratitis on one of my days off from my standard job. It was a great day to help people who had driven across DFW for specialty care. Everyone was so grateful and the pay was outstanding. Definitely recommend!!
All I have to do is arrive at the office to take care of patients.
Being on call for Urgent Eyecare has been a great experience every time. The triage technician is always fantastic! All I have to do is arrive at the office to take care of patients when needed — everything else is handled for me beforehand. Patients are always incredibly thankful for the service we provide and the ability to be seen after hours. It’s a rewarding experience for all, for sure!
For her, we were the proof she needed to get the care she deserved.
She has been fighting with other healthcare providers and specialists for diagnosis and treatment and they have all brushed her off… For her, we were the proof she needed to get the care she deserved. … It took 10 years for someone to physically see what’s been ailing her, and only because we have an urgent EYE care clinic!
Ever since I started with UEC I knew the organization and individuals involved were special.
Patients present after-hours sharing their struggles to have found someone to attend to their concerns immediately… For them to see a qualified eye care provider with all the tools necessary to hear and evaluate their concerns in an expedited manner after hours helps relieve them of their anxieties. … We are very grateful for the opportunities you have provided our practice and myself individually. Ever since I started with UEC I knew the organization and individuals involved were special.
Clear roles
One visit. Three roles. One operating system.
Urgent Eyecare
Handles
- Patient acquisition
- Phone / text intake
- Triage
- Scheduling
- Patient payment
- Provider coordination
- Patient communication
- Technology
- Visit workflow
- Operational standards
- Referral / follow-up coordination
- Network management
Location partner
Provides
- Appropriate clinical space
- Agreed clinical equipment and access
- A reliable local practice environment
- A location liaison / operational point person
- Collaboration during setup and launch
Receives
- Participation in the UEC network
- Market-specific location compensation
- Exposure to urgent patients in the local market
- Potential appropriate follow-up relationships
- Centralized UEC infrastructure and operational support
On-call doctor
Provides
- Clinical evaluation and treatment
- Medical decision-making
- Required documentation
- Visit closeout
- Agreed on-call availability
Receives
- Compensation for completed urgent visits
- Flexible clinical opportunities
- Patients acquired and scheduled through UEC
- Centralized operational support
The business model
Yes, the location and doctor participate financially.
UEC collects payment from the patient as part of the centralized intake and scheduling process. Location partners are compensated under a market-specific partnership structure, and participating doctors are compensated for completed urgent visits.
Location structures may include a fixed location component, per-visit compensation, or another agreed partnership structure depending on the market and operating model.
Exact compensation and partnership terms are private and are discussed during the market-review process.
Patient
Urgent eye concern
UEC
Acquire → triage → schedule → collect → coordinate
Location partner
- Clinical setting
- Participates financially
On-call doctor
- Provides medical care
- Compensated per completed visit
Follow-up / closeout
UEC coordinates the appropriate next step
IRISUrgentEyecare
Every visit runs on Iris, the platform we built to run Urgent Eyecare: booking, payment, dispatch, charting and referrals.
How a visit works
One Friday night visit, start to finish.
You do what you're best at: seeing the patient. We handle everything before it, and the patient comes back to you after.
- The patient
Friday, 7:12pm
Something's wrong with their eye.
Their eye doctor is closed. They find us on Google, or an ER or urgent care sends them to us.
- We handle it
7:15pm
We answer, triage and book.
Our team takes the call or text, makes sure it's urgent, collects payment and books the visit.
- Your part
8:00pm
You see the patient.
In your office, during hours you chose. They're booked, paid and ready when you walk in.
- You keep them
Next week
They come back to you.
About 1 in 5 are sent back to your practice for follow-up. A new patient who already trusts you.
Clinical scope
Urgent optometric complaints — with clear escalation.
UEC is built for urgent eye problems that can be appropriately evaluated and managed in an outpatient eye care setting.
- Red eye / infection
- Corneal abrasion
- Foreign body
- Contact-lens complications
- Non-surgical ocular trauma
- Flashes / floaters
- Sudden vision changes
- Eye pain / photophobia
Cases requiring emergency surgical, neurological, penetrating, orbital, severe chemical, or inpatient-level care are directed to the appropriate emergency / ophthalmic setting.
See your numbers
Would it be a bad idea to see the numbers for your market?
Tell us where you are and the numbers open right away: what a visit pays, what comes back to your practice, and which hours matter most. We’ll email the PDF and check whether your market is still open. No fee, nothing to sign.