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POWER & PARTNERSHIP LIKE NEVER BEFORE.

Connect with peers, build your practice and prosper with our renowned peer-to-peer network, results-driven advisory services and unmatched purchasing power.

PECAA is a breakthrough partnership for independent eye care professionals. With renowned peer networking and idea exchange, unmatched practice management services and solutions, the purchasing power of our 12,000+ members, and more than 250 vendor programs, we bring together the absolute best resources available to enable the independent eye care community to connect, build and prosper. For the first time ever, the advantages and scale of an eye care buying group have been combined with the community and insight of a doctor alliance to deliver exponential power to independents nationwide. No other group can offer you this level of membership value and experience.

Members Discuss What PECAA Means To Them

Who We Are

PECAA is the nation’s largest community

of independent eye care professionals — optometrists, ophthalmologists and opticians — with practices and businesses in all stages of growth.

Our Why

Our mission is to deliver maximum value

by connecting independents with the most compelling products and services to improve the productivity and profitability of your practice. PECAA has deep roots in eye care and a firsthand understanding of the challenges you face. We recognize that you need more resources, more support and more solutions from one organization that will help you manage the business side of your practice, allowing you to focus on your patients and providing them the highest possible care.

Key Benefits of Joining

The scale advantages of a buying group

  • Maximum purchasing power including discounted pricing and maximum rebate potential
  • The industry’s largest choice of 250+ vendors and programs across all product and service categories
  • Consolidated billing that combines your ophthalmic purchases on one, easy to understand statement
  • Business & technology services that help you make informed decisions and maximize efficiencies
  • 12,000 members strong, providing unmatched industry leverage and influence

The strength of community from an alliance

  • Industry-leading events and programs that promote peer networking, idea exchange and camaraderie
  • Results-driven advisory services to assist with practice operations and financial strategies, including expertise in billing and coding, practice marketing and more
  • Staff training for your entire team to keep them growing and focused
  • Continuing education options — in-person and on-demand — that help you stay in the know and on the leading edge

Staunch Supporter of Independent Eye Care

Endorsed by 22 professional organizations, including 21 optometric associations and the United Opticians Association (formerly Opticians Association of America), PECAA is a committed and active supporter of independent eye care. Under these partnership arrangements, PECAA is the preferred purchasing and business solutions partner to each organization, and PECAA provides both financial and non-financial support to each group. To date, PECAA has contributed more than $15.5 million in non-dues revenue support.