Silver Package: Insurance Benefits for Lens Replacement Surgery
Your insurance company will provide you with a Basic (monofocal) lens that will provide excellent distance vision. If you used corrective lenses prior to Lens Replacement Surgery, it is common that with the Basic lens you will need some type of corrective lenses after surgery as well.
We can expect that your insurance or health care service plan will pay for the Out Patient Surgery Center fee, the cost of anesthesia as well as the surgeon fee for Lens Replacement Surgery, less any deductible or co-pay requirements.
Today’s Lens Replacement patient demands excellent vision after surgery. Many people with astigmatism (irregular shape of cornea that requires glasses for correction), may elect for a lens that addresses astigmatism providing natural distance vision.
The most advanced method of distance correction uses a lens called a Toric lens. The Toric lens incorporates unique optics to compensate for specific deficiencies in your vision. Astigmatism correction may be the best choice for you if you would like to further improve your quality of vision and reduce your dependency on glasses.
PlatinumPackage: Multifocal or Accommodating Correction / Maximum Spectacle Freedom
Where a basic lens provides you with single focus distance vision, a Specialty lens such as amultifocal or accommodating IOL, will be the best choice if you want to maximize your ability to focus at varying distances while minimizing your dependency on glasses.
Previous Lens Replacement Surgery technologies provided only one focal point: distance; leaving people dependant upon reading glasses or bifocals. Recent advancements in multifocal technology nowmake it possible for you to read the words on prescription bottles, magazines, newspapers and computer screens with out magnifying glasses or bifocals (even trifocals), while still clearly seeing objects at a distance.These lenses have the ability to consistently offer improved vision at various ranges - near through distance. Your doctor can discuss with you which lens will best address your visual demands and lifestyle.
