Because we provide both medical and routine eye care, we accept a number of insurance plans to help cover the cost depending on your individual needs.
Our Eye Care Staff Is Here To Help You With Your Insurance
A vision insurance policy is not the same as health insurance. Regular health insurance plans protect you against financial losses due to unexpected eye injuries or disease. Vision insurance, on the other hand, is a wellness benefit designed to provide routine eye care, prescription eyewear and other vision-related services at a reduced cost.
Because we provide both medical and routine eye care, we accept several insurance plans to help cover the cost depending on your individual needs. Here are just some of the plans that we accept:
We are an Open Access Provider for VSP, EyeMed, Spectera, Superior, and Davis Vision! Ask one of our insurance specialists today!
Using Vision Insurance Benefits
Can I use my vision insurance benefits at your office?
Very likely yes! Jupiter Eye Care works with most vision insurance on an open-access basis. As an open-access provider, we are not contracted directly with your vision plan, but we can still perform eye exams and utilize your vision insurance benefits for glasses and contact lenses.
We will look up your benefits and let you know what your insurance covers and what your discounts and out-of-pocket expenses will be. We want to make sure you utilize your vision benefits.
Why is your office no longer directly contracted with my vision insurance?
Most patients don’t realize that vision insurance companies do not pay providers their exam fees. Most vision plans reimburse providers $40-$50 for a comprehensive eye exam and are contracted to “write off” the balance. This low provider reimbursement rate has remained the same for over 20 years.
With rising costs, it is not economically viable to continue as a contracted provider with low reimbursement rates. Doctors who continue to remain as contracted providers will end up having to delegate more of the exam to technicians and spend less time with each patient. Ultimately, we have decided that we are unwilling to see more patients in less time and compromise our quality of care.
Does this mean I have to submit the paperwork myself to see you?
We will submit everything for you! Our goal is to remove the headache of dealing with insurance carriers. For most plans, your insurance will reimburse you directly for what they cover toward an exam and glasses or contact lenses. We will tell you upfront what your benefit covers, and what your out-of-pocket expenses will be so there are no surprises.
Does this change have any additional benefits?
Becoming an open-access provider has allowed us to include our OCT retinal images on every patient with your comprehensive eye exam. Since incorporating the OCT into our practice over a decade ago, we have diagnosed many eye diseases in patients of all ages using retinal scans and photos. Some of these conditions were vision-related and some were life-threatening. These cases included patients of all age ranges. To be able to include OCT retinal imaging as a standard part of our eye exam will help make sure that these cases are diagnosed promptly and treated properly. We now offer more discounts and promotions on glasses and contacts, combined with your insurance reimbursements will save you even more at the end of the day. We now offer similar discounts without you having to pay a monthly insurance premium. Call us or stop by the office to see how we can help you save on glasses, contacts, and eye exams today.
Should I go to a practice recommended by my vision insurance company?
While we understand that this is tempting. Vision insurance companies recommend corporate practices that they control (Lenscrafters, VisionWorks, Pearle Vision). When a patient goes to a corporate practice recommended by an insurance company, they will be sold products made by the same company that told them to go there. This conflict of interest is usually not disclosed and is often not in the best interest of the patient. Usually, it costs the patient more in the end.
Our Clinic in Jupiter Accepts The Following:
Medical Plans We Accept
- Medicare
- United Healthcare
- Aetna
- Cigna
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Vision insurance is designed to provide routine eye care, prescription eyewear and other vision-related services at a reduced cost. Learn about types of plans, coverage and payment options.
- Make the most of your vision insurance plan by understanding your particular vision coverage.