Accepting a variety of insurance

Why Are We an Open Access Provider?

Our office has made the difficult decision to become open access providers for certain vision plans. We are frequently asked, “Why”?

Please know that we never made any of these decisions without many hours of contemplation.

Vision Plans have not increased reimbursements for decades despite increasing labor and overhead costs. They expect optometrists to make up for this by seeing patients faster and faster. We were faced with a question that would define the culture of our office:

‍“Do we work for insurance companies, or do we work for our patients?”

‍The answer was simple, we work for YOU, our patients. We decided that seeing patients faster and faster, simply to make up for inadequate reimbursement, was unsustainable. We reached the breaking point when continuing to remain in-network was compromising the quality of care we aim to provide. Our goal is to provide only the best level of eye care.

You can still come to our office! Vision Plans almost always have out of network benefits. We have software that can give us your real-time benefits, and we can submit the claim for you.