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Doctor Should Take Lead When Managing Annual Vision Benefit

Published on Wed Aug 24, 2016

Question: Our patient’s vision plan covers either contacts or glasses annually, and she used it to buy contacts this year. But after she got home, they were uncomfortable because her eyes were so dry. Now she wants to get glasses but she is complaining that she’ll have to go out of pocket to buy them. Is there a workaround to this? [...]
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