VisionHealth EyeCare

VisionHealth EyeCare is committed to saving you money so that you can live better. Being located inside Wal*Mart Vision Center allows us to provide low-cost eyecare to your family. We can keep our fees low because our overhead is lower than a typical doctor’s office since we have an ideal location inside Wal*Mart which provides a steady flow of appointments. We also limit the amount of insurances we accept to keep our accounts receivable low, which allows our fees to stay low.

Here is the breakdown of the low exam fees at VisionHealth EyeCare:

• $45 Basic Eye Exam
• $10 extra for dilation (strongly recommended)
• $30 extra for contact lens fitting - standard spherical lens
• $40 extra for contact lens fitting - toric, multi-focal, monovision, or GP lenses
• $10 extra for corneal topography
• $10 extra for corneal pachymetry (measures thickness of cornea, important in detecting glaucoma)
• $30 extra for HRT2 optic nerve imaging (glaucoma special testing)
• $40 extra for Complete Visual Field testing
• $20 Follow-up Exam (contact lens follow-up if between 2-6 months from date of initial fitting; note: 0-60 days contact lens follow-up visits are included in above contact lens fitting fee.)
• $1000 extra for Ortho-K evaluation, lenses, and follow-up
• $45 Red/pink Eye Visit
• $65 Foreign Body Removal

The insurances I currently accept are:
BlueCross BlueShield (Traditional and ValueCare)
Regence MedAdvantage
Deseret Mutual Benefit Administrators (DMBA)
IBEW(#57)
Educators Mutual
CSI Benefits Administrators (Campbell Scientific vision plan)
Utah Medicaid and PCN (not Molina)
Tricare (No longer accepted.)

The insurances that I accept and that Wal-Mart’s optical can bill for glasses/contacts are:
Spectera (a.k.a. OptumHealth Vision)
Davis Vision
Block Vision
NVA
Superior Vision
Avesis
Advantica

Please note that your medical insurance doesn’t always handle your vision insurance. For example, Federal Blue uses Davis Vision, which I accept. And while I don’t take UnitedHealthCare, they typically farm the vision benefit out to Spectera which I can take; however, it is employer dependent because while Quest uses UHC for medical, the vision is through EyeMed which I can’t accept. Another case is that I take BlueCross, but some plans like BlueCross of Wyoming and Schreiber’s BlueCross plan farm the vision benefit out to VSP, which I also can’t accept.

If you have EyeMed or VSP, you can still have your exam with me, but you must pay it all up front and get reimbursed using your out of network claim form. Do the math and you will discover that we can probably save you money over your in-network’s doctor office thanks to our every day low prices.

Also note that just because you have insurance doesn’t mean that you won’t have to pay anything when you come in. Typically you will have co-pays on your exam. When purchasing eyecare products using the vision insurances that Wal-Mart’s optical will accept, you can also have co-pays for materials and upgrade fees on any premium products that you buy. Also, I have never seen a vision insurance pay for a full year supply of contacts. They typically offer an allowance that falls short.

People should really do the math and see if insurances are worth it for their situation. If your employer pays for your vision insurance, then great. If it gets taken out of your check, then I would do the math.

FAQs

“But I don’t need a contact lens fitting. I just need more contacts.”

If you have a current valid prescription, then go ahead and buy more contacts whenever you want. Most people buy a year supply at a time so they don’t have to worry about it the rest of the year. If your contact lens prescription expired, then to obtain a contact lens prescription to buy more contacts, you need to pay me for my time and expertise in providing you the appropriate contact lens prescription. In the state of Utah, the government has seen fit to micro-manage healthcare by requiring that all contact lens prescriptions should have two year expiration dates. The caveat is if you have a changing prescription or have any eye health conditions that require yearly monitoring, I can (and will) make your prescription expire yearly so that you receive the best eyecare possible.

Why do I need to fill out all this paperwork? I have been here before.

The previous doctor that worked in the Logan Wal-Mart Vision Center didn’t leave many records, and even if I do have it, you must fill out MY paperwork. It is part of your exam record and communicates to me your health history and family eye history which helps me assess your vision and eye health. Once you fill out my paperwork, then the next time you won’t have to fill it out again because I’ll just ask you if anything has changed.

Do you take Medicare?

I cannot bill insurance for anyone who has Medicare (usually people over age 65). Even if you have BCBS or something else that I take, but it’s just a secondary to Medicare, I can’t bill for your exam since I’m not with Medicare at this location. You will be expected to pay for the exam up front. Medicare doesn’t pay for a routine eye exam benefit anyway.
(FYI: I do this because I’ve had tons of trouble at my previous practice getting paid from national government sponsored plans like Medicare and Tricare, so I dropped them.)