Your Health Care Benefits Connection for 2018

Vision Care Coverage

Vision Care Coverage

With the importance so many of us place on good eyesight, it is good to know that a vision care plan is available to you. This coverage will help pay for certain vision care expenses, such as eye exams, corrective lenses, frames and contact lenses. The plan is administered by Vision Service Plan (VSP) and its national network of vision care providers.

Vision care coverage is selected separately from medical and dental coverage. You may elect a different coverage category than you elect for those plans:

  • Employee (yourself only)
  • Employee + Spouse
  • Employee +1 Child (yourself and one child)
  • Family (yourself and two or more family members).

If you choose, you may elect to waive vision care coverage.

If you elect coverage, the benefit you receive is based on the vision care service or product you receive and whether you use an in-network or out-of-network provider.

By choosing an in-network provider – a provider affiliated with VSP – you get the highest level of benefits available from the plan.

Find a VSP in-network provider at www.vsp.com or call 1-800-877-7195.

Additional information about the vision care coverage is available from HRConnect at www.ynhhs.org/hrconnect.

 

New for 2018 – VSP EasyOptions

VSP EasyOptions offers every covered VSP member the power to personalize their vision coverage from a menu of benefit options. Each member selects the benefit right for them during their VSP doctor visit.

How it works

  1. Enroll in the VSP EasyOption plan at open enrollment and add dependents, if applicable.
  2. Employee schedules eye exam
  3. Employee visits VSP doctor and selects customizable benefit after discussing available options. Every covered member has the opportunity to choose a different customizable benefit at the time of their appointment.

The five customizable options are:

  1. $250 frame allowance, OR
  2. $200 elective contact lenses allowance PLUS covered-in-full contact lens exam after $60 copay, OR
  3. Progressive lenses covered in full, OR
  4. Photochromic lenses covered in full, OR
  5. Anti-Reflective lenses covered in full

Benefit
Plans

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  • In-Network Benefits
  • Out-of-Network Benefits

Benefit

Eye Exam
Covered in full every 12 months after a $15 copay.
Corrective Lenses
Standard lenses (including glass or plastic single vision, bifocal or trifocal) are covered in full every 12 months after a $15 copay for lenses and frames.
Frames
Large selection of frames are covered in full (up to $155) every 24 months. Plus, 20% discount off any out-of-pocket costs.
Contact Lenses
$155 allowance every 12 months when you choose contacts instead of glasses. Plus, the VSP doctor provides a 15% discount off his/her professional services.

Benefit

Eye Exam
Covered up to $45 every 12 months.
Corrective Lenses
Up to $45 for single vision lenses; bifocals up to $65 and trifocal up to $85 every 12 months.
Frames
Up to $47 every 24 months.
Contact Lenses
Up to $105 every 12 months when you choose contacts instead of glasses.
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