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Health or Vision Insurance?
The eye care medical field has an unusual split between two different types of insurance for covering eye issues: health insurance and vision insurance. Not all patients have both.
In most cases, your health insurance is used to cover medical and surgical eye problems but not routine exams or the cost of contacts or glasses. Those things are often covered by separate vision insurance.
Why the difference? Originally, health insurance was created to take care of health “problems” and...
Why is there Blood in the Back of My Eye?
What does blood in the back of the eye signify, anyway?
It could be a retinal vein occlusion, an ocular disorder that can occur in older people where the blood vessels to the retina are blocked.
The retina is the back part of the eye where light focuses and transmits images to the brain. Blockage of the veins in the retina can cause sudden vision loss. The severity of vision loss depends on where the blockage is located.
Blockage at smaller branches in the retinal vein is referred...
5 Reasons to Buy Your Glasses Locally
Nowdays, many people prefer shopping online to shopping in stores for many of their needs.
With technology constantly improving and evolving, people like the convenience of shopping online. Whether it’s clothing, electronics, or even food, you can easily find almost everything you need on the Internet.
Eyeglasses, unfortunately, are no different. Many online shops have been popping up in recent years, offering people that same convenience. But what they don’t tell you is that it comes...
