I knew there would be a cost for the corrective lenses. I figured it would be a few hundred dollars on top of what Medicare paid for the surgery. I was way wrong. I got the pricing in my patient package. Crap. I guess I will be getting the noncorrective Medicare paid for lenses. I know several of you wrote that the normal lens provided by Medicare worked really well and corrected much of your vision problems. I guess I will find out. Hugs
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yup…that’s actually cheaper than what I was quoted. The medicare paid for ones work really well. they corrected everything except my astigmatism (which is simply the shape of the eye and can’t be corrected).
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Hi Suze. I wanted to thank you for your encouragement and support. I can not help thinking that there is a lot of profit in the prices of those lenses. I wrote a breakdown on the prices I was quoted and my costs in a post this morning. I guess my cost will be about $842.24 and I have a pre operation appointment July 21. I guess this is going to happen. Hugs
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that is right about what I spent for both lens surgically.
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The basic are what my grandparents got, in the days (1970s) when they didn’t offer vision-corrective lenses with cataract surgery. They just kept on using their glasses, but they saw so much better without those cataracts covering their eyes! You’re not gonna be unhappy once you get through recovery, Scottie.
DH got the distance vision correction. We were still working then, with his insurance. I think we paid 800.00 for each surgery, above what was paid by insurance. That’s a lot of money, but we were working then, kid was grown, so we could budget it. He hated wearing glasses, I like it just fine, so my plan is to do the basic if/as/when mine grow far enough.
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Hi Ali. Thank you for your support and encouragement. I was not going to pay for the corrective lenses anyway but when the doctor went over my vision, what I do, and the effect of the lenses he told me he did not think the corrective ones would work for or help me. He felt I would be better off with the regular Medicare paid one. I wrote it all up in a morning post. He asked if I had trouble wearing glasses, and I told him not if they have the right prescription and fit correctly. The doctor said he felt my vision for far and intermediate will be good and I might need readers for up close. I might need a prescription glasses because I have had a prism so long my mind is used to it. Hugs
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