Your Guide to Insurance Policies

Appointments are scheduled to make the best use of patient and professional time. Patients being late for an appointment alters the time allotted for subsequent appointments, causing dismay among those patients made to wait. Please plan to come early to fill out any required paperwork. Bear in mind that each patient requires a different amount of time for evaluation and treatment. Some shifts in time allotments are inevitable. It might be your problem requiring a longer time slot.

In order to better serve our patients, it is important to fill all open visit spaces each day. Missed appointments do not allow us enough time to call other patients in need of an appointment to fill the space. Therefore, we may not be able to reschedule an appointment for you without the doctor's approval if you have 2 or more consecutive missed appointments or if you have 3 or more missed appointments in 6 months. Furthermore, 2 or more consecutive missed appointments may result in a $50 missed appointment charge. We do our best to accommodate a patient late for their appointment, but it might be necessary to reschedule.

Payment for treatment is due at the time of service unless prior credit arrangements have been made. Payments may be made by cash, check, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover.

PFISTER VISION Correction Center will electronically file any type of medical or vision insurance as a courtesy to patients. It is the patient’s responsibility to provide complete insurance information.

Patients must determine whether their treating eye doctor is an in-network provider for their insurance plan. Participation varies from doctor to doctor.

• If the treating doctor is in-network:
  The patient is responsible for deductibles, co-pays on the day of treatment, and any remaining allowed balance after insurance payment.
• If the treating doctor is out-of-network:
  The patient must pay for all services at the time of treatment that are not covered by their insurance.

Below is a representative but partial listing of major insurances accepted:

• Aetna
• Blue Cross & Blue Shield
• HealthSpring
• Medicare
• Secure Horizons
• United Health Care (commercial)
• Viva

• AARP
• Acordia
• Advantra
• Allstate
• APWU
• Champus
• Cigna
• First Health
• GEHA
• Golden Rule
• Great West
• Health Choice
• Humana
• Liberty Mutual
• Mail Handlers
• MetLife
• Tri-Care

If you do not see your insurance company listed above, please feel free to contact us by phone or through the form on our Contact Us page.