As general health insurance costs continue to skyrocket, fewer employers are providing traditional vision insurance policies, according to industry insiders say.
Instead, vision discount cards that cost the insured as little as $1 a month are becoming more pevalent, according to Lynn Steinle of Strategic Employee Benefits Services.
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“Most of the plans we have input over the last few years have been terminating the vision plan for a discount card,” Steinle said. “You would get contacts, frames, lenses and an exam within 12- or 24-month periods. Then you have maximum amounts of a very narrow network within which you can seek services.
