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Intralase surgeons hit Q404 speed bumps
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| Brent Hanson - LasikFraud.com 2005-03-19, 6:22 pm |
| JAGfn.com.
February 11, 2005 Friday 11:03 AM Eastern Time
ILSE: Reit Market Perform - IntraLase placed 37 lasers in Q404; our
forecast was 30. Laser ASPs were near $312K (vs. $298K target) on fewer
leases/more purchases. 43% of placements were OUS, reflecting management's
increasing focus on and investment in the overseas opportunity. Procedure
volumes grew to 52k, shy of our 58k target. U.S. volumes were flat for the
2nd quarter in a row as LASIK industry growth decelerated (we estimate
mid-single digits yr/yr) and 3 high volume IntraLase surgeons hit Q404 speed
bumps in their practices. Laser utilization fell to 241 procedures/quarter.
An ongoing trend of sales to lower volume U.S. surgeons contributed to this.
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| Ragnar 2005-03-19, 6:22 pm |
| Not that anybody probably cares.. but I'm not surprised at this
report. The intralase system is fine.. but it's mainly used as a
marketing tool and raises the price of the procedure. The benefits of
intralase are minimal.. and their are disadvantages to it's use.
It is some really neat technology though. It will probably develop
into some new technology.
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:33:11 -0600, "Brent Hanson - LasikFraud.com"
<brent@nospam_lasikfraud.com> wrote:
>JAGfn.com.
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>February 11, 2005 Friday 11:03 AM Eastern Time
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> ILSE: Reit Market Perform - IntraLase placed 37 lasers in Q404; our
>forecast was 30. Laser ASPs were near $312K (vs. $298K target) on fewer
>leases/more purchases. 43% of placements were OUS, reflecting management's
>increasing focus on and investment in the overseas opportunity. Procedure
>volumes grew to 52k, shy of our 58k target. U.S. volumes were flat for the
>2nd quarter in a row as LASIK industry growth decelerated (we estimate
>mid-single digits yr/yr) and 3 high volume IntraLase surgeons hit Q404 speed
>bumps in their practices. Laser utilization fell to 241 procedures/quarter.
>An ongoing trend of sales to lower volume U.S. surgeons contributed to this.
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