Pivotal Group Member Benefits
Here are all of the ways we help our members dramatically boost profits and reclaim their independence: vendor information, sample pricing, full price sheets, and more..
Table of Contents
- An Introduction to Pivotal Group's Member Benefits
- Profit Point #1: The Industry's Best Stock Lens Pricing
- Profit Point #2: Steep Discounts on Industry-Leading Edgers
- Profit Point #3: Extraordinary Full-Service Lab Pricing and Benefits
- Profit Point #4: Frames for 20-25% Less than Any Other Alliance
- Profit Point #5: Direct Billing that Boosts Exam Revenue by 20%+
- Profit Point #6: Practically Wholesale Credit Card Processing Rates
- Profit Point #7: Members-Only Advanced Video Training for Boosting Profits
- Closing Thoughts & How to Get In Touch
NOTE: This Member Benefits outline is for high-level information about our offerings. For more specific details, such as full price sheets and applications for each vendor, please visit the Vendor Apps & Pricing page.
Buying groups & alliances should focus on one thing: Increasing your profits
The problem is… most of them aren’t.
Our industry is filled with money-hungry “partners” that double-and-triple-dip into your profits every chance they get.
Between VCPs and corporations trying to control every aspect of your business, and “alliances” that often take more than their fair share, it’s becoming impossible to turn the profits that were possible just a few short years ago.
Nobody needs to mark up their negotiated rates as much as many of these groups do, and they certainly aren’t helping by taking a percentage of many members’ gross revenue.
Two things drive every decision we make: Our member profits, and enabling members to provide superior patient care. This is clear when you see:
- The fact that our membership is 100% free to join, keep, or cancel
- Our comprehensive training library teaches ways to profit that nobody else is sharing for free
- Our vendor rates are massively cheaper than any competitor, because we actually pass on the discounts we’ve negotiated
Feel free to call us at (800) 819-2084 or contact us if you have any questions.
We look forward to taking your profit margins to a whole new level.
Profit Point #1: Finishing stronger than your competition
How much could you out-market, outmaneuver, and outperform all of your competitors if your stock lenses cost 40% - 60% less than any other buying group or alliance?
Sample Stock Lens Pricing
| Aspheric Poly w/ Hardcoat | $4 to $10 |
|---|---|
| Aspheric Poly w/ Premium AR | $12 to $40 |
| 1.67 w/ Premium AR | $27 to $60 |
| Aspheric Poly w/ Hardcoat | $1.96 |
|---|---|
| Aspheric Poly w/ Premium AR | $4.24 |
| 1.67 w/ Premium AR | $14.50 |
Our aspheric poly with premium AR is just $4.24 a pair — and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Our members also enjoy easy online ordering, next-day shipping for less than $6, and more.
Please visit the Stock Lenses & Edgers section on our Vendor Apps & Pricing page for more details and application information.
Profit Point #2: “Better than tradeshow” year-round pricing on the industry’s best edgers
Need a new edger, but struggling to justify their high price tag?
In-house finishing is where our member profits skyrocket, so it’s important that they can get incredible pricing year-round.
Sample Edger Pricing
| Complete Entry Level System with Grooving and Hydrophobic Mode | $24,000+ |
|---|---|
| Top of the Line Autoblocking Edger with Drilling, Chemestrie, and Square Bevel Function | $55,000+ |
| Complete Entry Level System with Grooving and Hydrophobic Mode | $18,750 |
|---|---|
| Top of the Line Autoblocking Edger with Drilling, Chemestrie, and Square Bevel Function | $38,995 |
We’ve negotiated discounts on a huge variety of edgers, starting at less than $19,000. That’s brand new, not refurbished!
Our members also enjoy other benefits that no other group offers, such as a five-year parts warranty.
Our competitors literally cannot match the aggressively negotiated rates that our members enjoy when finishing in-house.
Please visit the Stock Lenses & Edgers section on our Vendor Apps & Pricing page for more details and application information.
Profit Point #3: Generated lab that actually generates profit
You shouldn’t have to sacrifice profit just because a patient has a complex prescription.
Our full-service lab partner is over 40% more affordable than our competitors. We’ve saved some of our members almost twice that vs. what they were paying as a member of their previous alliance.
Sample Generated Lab Pricing
| Full Digital Basic Progressive | $40 to $60 |
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| Backside Custom Freeform Progressive (Hi Index 1.60) | $140 to $200 |
| Premium, 2-Year Warranty AR | $35 to $60 |
| Full Digital Basic Progressive | $20.00 |
|---|---|
| Backside Custom Freeform Progressive (Hi Index 1.60) | $37.00 |
| Premium, 2-Year Warranty AR | $15.00 |
Our custom freeform, hi-index progressives cost just $37 per pair.
Full digital basic progressives are just $20 per pair.
That’s not cherry picking — the majority of our negotiated rates are this low. Our lab partner has all of the lenses and coats you currently use, without sacrificing any quality:
- All Digital Progressives
- From entry-level to truly freeform custom designs
- Multiple corridor designs — variable and fixed available
- Complete Material Freedom
- Extremely Durable Anti-Reflective
- Multi-layer, anti-static, ultra hydrophobic and oleophobic with thermal hardcoat
All of this, PLUS the best policies in the industry:
- No returns necessary
- Up to two-year, one-time “anything” remake
- 90-day non-adapt, no-charge remake
- No calls necessary — submit remakes 100% online
And to do away with all doubt, new members get to take our lab partner’s lenses for a free “test drive”.
Give us a handful of your most challenging prescriptions, and see for yourself that these lenses will match or beat your preferred vendor.
Please visit the Full-Service Lab section on our Vendor Apps & Pricing page for more details and application information.
Profit Point #4: Frames for 20% - 25% less than any other group
Most groups negotiate frames relationships using a “shotgun” approach.
They spread their attention across 20-30+ vendors, which makes it virtually impossible to establish quality relationships, while also overwhelming members with too many unnecessary choices.
We take the opposite approach: We work exclusively with a handful of vendors that give our members unbeatable rates (80% off list), and focus on developing that relationship as deeply as possible. At the end of the day, that’s what is best for our members’ profit margins.
Our frames vendors have everything you need to maximize profit margins: from handcrafted Italian titanium frames that command hundreds at full retail, to Medicaid-quality frames that satisfy bare minimums.
We also have safety and sport sunglasses coming soon in 2018.
We make breakeven frames sales a thing of the past for our members.
Please visit the Frames section on our Vendor Apps & Pricing page for more details and application information.
Profit Point #5: Direct billing that boosts exam revenue by over 20%
Focus on the things that you want to focus on, and let us take care of the billing.
Pivotal Direct Billing has increased our members’ profits per exam up to 22%, while charging 20% less in fees than our competitors do.
And our free training teaches you and your staff everything you need to know about pre-authorization, verifications, coordination of benefits, best practices for scheduling, and more to ensure you get every dollar per patient that you’re currently leaving on the table.
Please visit the Billing Services section on our Vendor Apps & Pricing page for more details and application information.
Profit Point #6: Practically wholesale credit card processing rates that Pivotal Group marks up 0%
When we face the decision to make more profit personally OR pass savings on to our members, we always choose our members.
Nothing illustrates that more clearly than our member credit card processing rates.
With effective rates as low as 1.78%, which include:
- 0.06% + 5 cents per transaction for Visa, Mastercard, and Discover
- 0.34% + 5 cents for American Express
- A month-to-month contract: NO long-term commitments
- Rates are guaranteed to never change
Our members add 0.5% to 1% in pure profit each year simply by switching to our aggressively negotiated CC processor.
Please visit the Credit Card Processing section on our Vendor Apps & Pricing page for more details and application information.
Profit Point #7: Free training that acts as a “treasure map” to uncover every profit opportunity you’re currently missing
We teach our members every profit opportunity they need using our extensive library of video training, webinars, and 1-on-1 telephone consultations...
- “Opting out” or going OON with EyeMed, VSP, Spectera, Davis, and others
- Supply chain & inventory management
- Optimizing your medical billing, coding, and documentation
- And more…
From small details such as setting patient expectations during the exam, to must-have instructions for maximizing profit if you’re considering “opting-out” or going out-of-network: our experts don’t hold anything back.
The more our members succeed, the more we succeed.
This is why we do everything we can to set you up for success.
This is why we equip you to make more profit than any other group or alliance in the country.
This is what serves as the heartbeat of Pivotal Group, and we hope to work with you as our newest member soon.
How to start studying our library of advanced video training: Pending members have "preview" access to begin watching some of the training, and approved members enjoy unrestricted access to all advanced video training.
You can begin studying any time by visiting the training library here.
Not an approved member yet? Make sure to get in touch and schedule your interview if you haven't already!
We meet with every new applicant prior to granting full access to our members area.
If your membership is still pending and we're not yet scheduled to meet, make sure to contact us to setup your initial call so that we can learn how Pivotal Group can help your business!
Feel free to call us at (800) 819-2084 or fill out this form so that we can get your initial call scheduled. The call shouldn't take more than 30-45 minutes, and you can get started with everything here (for free) as soon as your membership is approved.
Once your membership is approved, you'll receive unrestricted access to all pricing lists, vendor applications, and member pricing that's here in our members area.
We're passionate about doing everything we can to help our members succeed, so whether you're a pending member or an approved member, please never hesitate to contact us if there's anything we can do to help your business become more successful.
Thank you so much for taking the time to look over our member benefits, and let us know if there's anything we can do to help!