Jan
08
what is the average cost for lasik eye surgery? Does medical insurance cover any of it?
ByQuestion: i have blue cross blue shield health care through my union if that matters.
Question: i have blue cross blue shield health care through my union if that matters.
4 Comments
January 8th, 2010 at 9:58 am
Dont know if if Blue Shield Cross matters, but the last I heard the surgery was $ 650.00 per eye. I wish my insurance paid for this, glasses can be a pain at times.
January 8th, 2010 at 10:52 am
Medical insurance covers medical problems (in most cases). Myopia / hyperopia/ astigmatism / presbyopia that requires spectacle correction is not a medical problem and hence no insurance company that I know of has ever covered laser eye treatment in this case. Laser eye treatment is considered an elective cosmetic surgery – hence the problems people have trying to claim damages when things go wrong. (unless you can prove negligence, you don’t stand a chance – exhaustive consent forms, voluntarily having a surgical procedure on healthy tissue etc)
Prices seem to average around $2100 per eye.
January 8th, 2010 at 11:18 am
that is the insurrance my family has and when my sister got lasik it wasn’t covered under the insurrance.
this was a couple years ago but at that time it was $1000 per eye.
January 8th, 2010 at 11:41 am
I’ve ever met the similar thing — still a little bit annoy,here http://www.HealthInsuranceIdeas.info/free-online-health-insurance.htm is the resource that help me out.