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Laser eye surgery is a simple yet life-changing procedure, with the ability to alter your lifestyle and self-confidence. While the procedure itself can be performed quickly and easily – and with highly innovative optical laser equipment – it’s still imperative to have a good laser eye surgeon carry out the procedure.
However, with all the laser eye surgeons out there, the task of finding the best one can seem daunting. Countless reviews and advertisements claim to have the answer; but in the end, it’s up to you to find a surgeon who’s right for your own optical needs. In searching for the right surgeon, it’s wise to follow a few important guidelines that will point you in the right direction.
To begin, you should always ensure that every potential laser eye surgeon has the appropriate licensing and board certification. Past these vital pieces of criteria, you can meet with potential surgeons to ask some questions, regarding anything from the surgeon’s experience to the actual procedure. A quality surgeon will always be willing to spend pre-operative time with potential patients to answer questions, as well as to help build the patient’s confidence in the procedure and in his or her work.
Next, don’t underestimate referrals and reviews. Ask your regular optometrist whether he or she recommends any laser eye surgeons in particular. In addition, with the increasing popularity of laser eye surgery, chances are you’ll know someone who has had the procedure done – so keep your ears open for referrals from friends or family. Whether a past patient was pleased or dissatisfied with their laser eye surgery procedure, they’ll usually be more than happy to share their experience. If you’re not able to get a personal recommendation, try searching the internet for patient forums and reviews. You can also ask surgeons to show you testimonials from former laser eye surgery patients; however, such testimonials should be verified when possible.
Finally, you’ll want to consider cost in your search for a laser eye surgeon. While there are many discount laser eye surgery deals on the market, you certainly don’t want to compromise the quality of your procedure to save a few extra pounds. When it comes to something as important as your eyes, it’s worth taking out finance rather than settling for a mid quality procedure. However, with regard to laser eye surgery cost, you should always find out what is included in the price. Some surgeons might charge extra for consultations, after care, and post operative corrections, while others will include all of these services in their upfront cost. Make sure you find out what your quoted surgery will include, to ensure you’re not faced with any surprises down the line.
So, remember that finding a good laser eye surgeon is critical when seeking laser eye surgery. Follow a few important guidelines during your search, and you’re sure to find a surgeon who fits your personal optical needs and requirements.
Paul Buchanan writes for a digital marketing agency. This article has been commissioned by a client of said agency. This article is not designed to promote, but should be considered professional content.
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If you are nearsighted, you may probably be interested in Lasik. However, before you undergo the eye surgery, you should know the procedure of Lasik, the risk of the surgery, and after all you may pay attention to the cost of Lasik. When you try to estimate the cost of Lasik surgery, you may be surprised to the results that the cost varies greatly. The technology of Lasik is newly developed and the cost is very expensive at the beginning. Due to competition amongst different clinics the cost of Lasik is much cheaper than it is before. However, it is still a little high to most people. In general, surgical cost of each eye is between $500 and $2000. A few types of Lasik may cheaper, only about $200 for one eye, while some of them cost over $3000 per eye. Different type of Lasik has different cost. It mostly depends on the equipments and techniques that are used. However, the cost can vary widely from region to region, from hospital to hospital, and from doctor to doctor, even with the same type of Lasik.
If you have some friends that had Lasik experience, it is better to get some information about the cost and effect from them. You may be surprised to find out that the cheapest type of Lasik may have good results while the most expensive one might be accompanied by side effect, then how to choose the suitable Lasik surgery? And how to reduce the Lasik cost?
Get more information about the cost of Lasik from internet is a much convenient way. Some clinics provide network services, offer online estimates or thought email. You may find that many clinics may offer discount in the summer vacation, some accept monthly installments, and some newly opened hospital may even carry out the Lasik surgery for free.
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Due to the fast development of eye laser surgery and the competitions between difference clinics and doctors, eye laser surgery cost has been cut down greatly in recent years.
The inference factors on laser surgery cost mainly including the following ones:
1. The most important one is the types of laser technology. Laser surgery that use less advanced methods is much cheaper than that use advanced methods such as InterLasik or laser surgery that use WaveFront mapping system. So the cost of laser surgery can vary from $500 to $2000. And the average price for laser surgery or Lasik that use advanced technology today is between $1,950 and $2,105.
2. The type of the surgical equipment that was used for creating cornel flap is also inference the cost greatly. This is the first step of laser surgery and it is also the key step that determines the speed of eye healing. As most people wouldn’t like to take the risk of getting side effect of the surgery, they may choose wave front 3D mapping system guided lasik surgery rather than non customized lasik.
3. Although computer is commonly used to guided the procedure, many patient would like to choose experienced and skilled surgeon leaving the cost out of account.
4. Pre exam is usually included in the procedure of laser surgery. However, some type of laser surgery that is very cheap may not include the eye exam step. For example, some advertise may show that the laser surgery only cost $500, in this condition you should make sure whether the pre exam is included before getting an appointment for eye laser surgery.
5. Besides the pre exam you should make sure whether the post medication and the follow up check up or surgery is included.
6. Finally, the place that laser surgery will be carried out also inference the cost.
It is better to get as much information as possible about the laser surgery before you make decision.
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Quite candidly, the perception of many people as well as our own was that a primary determinant of the affordability of LASIK was strongly related to the cost of having it done. We wonder if centers that charge slightly more or less than others benefit or are hurt by placing financial stress on the patients who elect to choose them. We are concerned about how important the cost of the procedure weighs in the average patient’s decision. Therefore, we decided to model the costs of LASIK at our current charges for the procedure as compared to the costs of glasses, contacts, solutions, and routine eye care to see just how much of a premium was involved for those who choose this option. We expected LASIK to cost more, and were very surpised just the opposite. The bottom line — having LASIK saves you money!
When we started looking at the actual costs for eye care over a lifetime we knew that there was a significant cost to glasses, contacts, solutions, and examinations for this care. We also knew that there are costs for LASIK and the costs associated with this care as well. For this reason we never put pen to paper and we were very surprised at our findings.
After a very conservative analysis these were our results:
- A 20 year-old could save over $48,000 over his/her lifetime with LASIK
- LASIK could pay for itself within 4 years (if you wear prescription eyeglasses, sunglasses, and use contact lenses)
- LASIK is even cost effective for most people in their 40s and 50’s!
These statistics are based on the average U.S. life expectancy of 77.7 years, and our own estimates of vision correction costs based on current average industry prices and recommendations.
These are the basic cost assumptions of this analysis:
- Prescription Eyeglasses: $200 every other year
- Prescription Sunglasses: $350 every other year
- Contact Lenses: $40 every month
- Contact Lens Supplies: $12 every month
- Annual Eye Exam (also applies to LASIK): $105 every year
- LASIK Cost: $3,500
Actual prices will probably vary from our calculations, based on what your situation – your annual visits may be more or less expensive than our estimate, and you may pay a different amount for glasses or contacts or buy them at in less frequent intervals – but we hope that this will be helpful for anyone who is researching the costs and benefits of LASIK.
Importantly this model includes important eye examinations AFTER LASIK which add costs to the LASIK choice, but is far outweighed by the other costs. The savings are probably even greater than calculated because there is an increase or escalation in the costs of things like glasses every year whereas the costs with LASIK are fixed. Even taking into account that a small percentage of LASIK patients may need an enhancement procedure years later, there is still an obvious and significant savings by having the procedure.
What really puts this over the top is the benefit of financing at zero or a low percentage, since the time of financing takes away the large capital cost of having the procedure, and by the time that the procedure is paid for, about half of the savings has been realized. Also, the other half can be covered with the fact that the surgery is tax deductible and/or the use of flexible savings accounts to use pre-tax dollars to cover the costs.
If you want the details, this table shows at ages in 5 year increments what the projected savings over a lifetime are for having LASIK surgery. For instance, a 30 year old would need prescription glasses and sunglasses every two years and contact lenses and supplies totaling almost $53,000. Even with the costs of LASIK and examinations, there is a savings of over $39,000! Yes, some people may not wear contacts this entire time, but it is our experience that most LASIK patients are contact wearers who also have prescription glasses. Also, we are being very conservative on glasses costs. Some prescription glasses from designers with all the bells and whistles come in close to $1,000 just for one pair of glasses.
Based on the estimated costs of this analysis we can see that contact lenses and their associated costs are substantial. This assumption is for daily wear disposable contacts. Obviously for all of those who have significant astigmatism and require toric contact lenses the costs are significantly more. By contrast, anyone who only wears glasses can subtract the contact lens costs from their personal analysis. Even for these people, there is still a savings by having LASIK over glasses alone, or for that matter for contacts alone without glasses. The latter is not recommended in that contact lens patients should always have glasses, at least for a backup should they not be able to wear their contacts. Again, our experience is that most patients have a number of glasses and contacts when they come to visit us for consideration of LASIK. This analysis also does not take into consideration the increased costs of bifocals or trifocals, which are substantially more expensive than single vision glasses.
Based on all of these factors, we believe that on average this analysis is accurate for the average person and thus demonstrates the financial benefit of LASIK clearly. There are certainly many disclaimers that should be made on this type of an analysis and to the extent that we have missed anything important, please forgive us and feel free to comment to this post and we will make corrections.
So how often is there something that you can do which will benefit you for a lifetime, providing you with an improved quality of life AND save you money? Here is my epiphany — I think that at some level patients have realized this fact and that is why so many millions of people worldwide have decided to have LASIK vision correction. Not only for the lifestyle benefit, but also for the financial benefit.
In a broader context, is not a healthier America a better and more cost effective America? Can we learn something here that has broader implications in the health care debate and legislation before us today? The emphasis should be on what we can provide to the American people that is valuable and will ultimately decrease the cost of health care and increase human productivity which will make us net a wealthier nation. This country is based on a combination of a free market economy and helping those who cannot afford to help themselves. We should be able to extend this philosophy to medical, dental, and eye care.
In the meantime, I am happy to learn that LASIK has helped to provide a better life while saving money for all of those who needed it.
Here is the most impressive thing, the epiphany. While $3500 is a substantial amount of money, it is just about the smallest number on this chart. Would it really matter if this was $5,000 instead? Not much really. So the costs for this procedure should not drive the decision to have it but rather whether it is a good idea for a particular person and also picking the best provider to have the greatest chance of realizing these savings. Second, even people who are over 40 years of age still will have a substantial benefit. In fact at age 40 there is still over $30,000 of savings by having LASIK.
Dr. Dishler is the first doctor to perform LASIK in Colorado, the first doctor to offer blade free LASIK in Colorado, and is a consultant, lecturer, and inventor. He is involved with several FDA studies and answers questions related to laser vision correction online.
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