Preserving Vision Through Advanced Glaucoma Care

Your insurance benefits remain completely unchanged for all medical treatments, procedures, and medications. Direct care membership adds enhanced robust annual comprehensive diagnostic exams (that may include treatment) and ongoing unlimited follow-up exams that are collectively designed to deliver services well beyond what insurance covers. And, if or when we believe that plan-covered services can substantially assist you, if we are in-network with your plan we can and will provide those services, too.

Annual and follow-up comprehensive diagnostic routine exams lack any time or scope restrictions that insurance plans impose. And, these ongoing routine comprehensive exams are supported all year by robust communication services support that are also not restricted by plan. The patient cost for these services is stable, and transparent. By contrast, plan-covered medical care typically requires medical necessity and restricts services (time and scope) to track medical necessity. Preventative exams are also limited and restricted in terms of frequency, scope, and time. And, plan-covered care can often generate unpredictable and non-transparent out-of-pocket costs that are neither stable nor transparent. The end result of these variations is that direct care subscription services provide a vastly superior care experience (for both preventative exam and care/treatments). And plan-covered services will only be provided on occasions when it makes sense it will largely be rare, as we will focus on direct care to solve most health challenges.

Annual and follow-up routine diagnostic exams costs constitute qualified medical expenses under IRS Pub 502. Thus, our direct care subscription program fees are designed to qualify for pre-tax and employer funding.