Agent Owner, Gilmore Insurance Services, Marysville, Washington State
Maybe. It will depend on the plan design of the medical coverage. Vision care is usually a supplemental (extra) coverage that employers can add to their benefits package. Usually vision plans offer coverage for check ups, lenses and frames. An employer can choose how the benefit will work. For example a 12/24/24 vision plan would provide coverage for check ups every 12 months, lenses and frames every 24. These options can vary and include deductibles or a copay or none at all. It just depends on how the employer wants the coverage to work.
Your regular health insurance plan may cover corrective lenses (glasses, contacts) in some situations.
Cataracts are typically covered by health insurance. Surgical intervention to correct cataracts is normally covered as are the "special" eyeglasses that some former cataract patients wear.
Other medical conditions of the eye, such as Sjogren's (an autoimmune disease that can affect the eye) may require the individual to wear special eyewear such as goggles to prevent air from hitting the eye and drying it out even further.
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Cataracts are typically covered by health insurance. Surgical intervention to correct cataracts is normally covered as are the "special" eyeglasses that some former cataract patients wear.
Other medical conditions of the eye, such as Sjogren's (an autoimmune disease that can affect the eye) may require the individual to wear special eyewear such as goggles to prevent air from hitting the eye and drying it out even further.