Finding Your Optimal Optometric Eye Care Professional
You need an eye doctor. Of course, there are now many names for an eye doctor - ophthalmologist, optometrist (which can not only check your eyes, but make glasses for them) and eye health care specialist (which basically means "eye doctor".) There are also optometrists which practice optometric eye care… which also means "eye doctor". Sometimes they do surgery - sometimes they don't.
Anyway…
Before you can find the best practitioner of optometric eye care for you, you need to take a look at what you expect to need in eye care. If you have had bad vision since the womb, then you definitely need someone who can help you with glasses or contact lens prescriptions and to give you check ups. If you have a child, they need slightly different care for their growing and every changing eyeballs.
Take other factors in mind like if you can easily drive to the optometric eye care professional's office or do you have to take public transportation? How many doctors are there in the practice? Does your family have a history of eye disease which might require surgery in the near future?
The Nitty Gritty
Last but not least, you need to ask yourself this question - how are you going to pay? More and more health insurance plans are dropping optometric eye care - or any other form of eye care - but some will still cover this, especially for children. One way to find the optometric eye care professional for you is to ask your health insurance who they cover in your area.
Once you have a name (or list of names), then call or email to ask some questions before you make an appointment. Ask when is the money due? What forms of payment do they accept? What are their hours? Do they have a financing plan? What forms do you need to bring with you? How long will a visit be?
In Conclusion
It is best to know who your optometric eye care professional is before you are in an eye emergency. It is also best to know how to get there before you have an eye emergency. When there is something wrong with your eyes, you will most likely have enough to worry about without having to struggle to find an eye doctor.
You can ask you regular doctor, even a specialist, for any optometric eye care professionals they recommend. You can also ask your friends, family and trusted business associates for recommendations.
