Inconsistencies Exist in National Estimates of Eye Care Services Utilization in the United States

Table 3

Total number of refractive eye exams performed annually in the US reported by AOA Excel and Jobson Medical Information LLC, 2012¹.

	Number
Number of refractive eye exams performed by optometrists only	88 million
Number of refractive eye exams performed by ophthalmologists only	16 million
Total annual exams	104 million

AOA Excel and Jobson Medical Information LLC. The State of the Optometric Profession: 2013 (available at http://www.reviewob.com/Data/Sites/1/soop_070120134.pdf. Accessed February 19, 2015).