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If you have good insurance go to an ophthalmologist (Medical Doctor) rather than an optometrist. This is not to disparage the integrity or skill of the optometrist. However, at that "certain age" you should be concerned about medical condition as well as refractive correction. As the years pass there will be an increasing risk of glaucoma, cataracts, macular degeneration, etc.
Unless your budget is very tight, does it really matter if you pay $80 or $130 for an eye exam? And if your insurance picks up part, or most, of it, you are talking about nickels and dimes.
The cost that varies really hugely is in the glasses. And any eye exam includes the right to take your prescription with you so you can buy glasses anywhere. I spent a lot on glasses to get frames I really like, and $38 for a dorky pair of Wal-Mart specs for working out.
I went to Wake Ophthalmology and wound up with a screwed up eyeglass prescription and multifocal contacts that were a complete waste of money. I'm sticking with Dr. Mauro, who discovered the prescription error a year later and fitted me with contacts that work great.
I go to Eye Care Associates in Durham across from Southpoint. I've been going there a couple of year & have really liked the service and glasses that I have gotten. I've ordered glasses and contacts twice.
We need an eye doctor who won't get grouchy over us taking our prescription with us.
Last time, we went to the guy at Costco in Raleigh. We got our prescription, but when I asked him to explain what the near and far vision was, he started in out how we should be buying from Costco not from some online place.
Anyway, it was quite the lecture. Don't wish to go through that again.
So who will do the eye exam and give us our prescription without a lecture?
somebody not tied to the large retailer next door that would like your eyeglass business.
Any suggestions to go along with your clever comment?
Most practice within the confines of a store that sells glasses right outside their exam room. At Costco, the office was located outside. But apparently, in addition to the exam fee, they get a cut of what you pay for glasses as well.
We are looking someone who either does not have a financial stake in where you buy your glasses, or else is comfortable with the exam fee being sufficient reimbursement for the exam.
Any suggestions to go along with your clever comment?
Most practice within the confines of a store that sells glasses right outside their exam room. At Costco, the office was located outside. But apparently, in addition to the exam fee, they get a cut of what you pay for glasses as well.
We are looking someone who either does not have a financial stake in where you buy your glasses, or else is comfortable with the exam fee being sufficient reimbursement for the exam.
I wound up going to Wake Ophthalmology. I saw Dr. Compton, and he could not have been more patient and thorough when answering all of my questions (and since this is the first time I've ever needed an eyeglass prescription, I had a lot of questions). He sent a prescription to their "in-house" retail optician, but also printed one out and handed it to me to take with me if I wanted to go somewhere else. I didn't even have to ask.
Dr. Dwight Barnes and his wife at Cary Park off Carpenter Fire Station
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