I've set up a basic eye exam with the local developmental optometrist and wanted any feedback. So, my insurance vision coverage will cover a basic exam with only a $10 co-pay and this guy is on the list of in network providers for that. He is not in network for medical (it's complicated). His office tells me that he can tell if dd11 has convergence insufficiency, etc. from just the regular basic eye exam that the insurance will cover. If so, then he'd need to do another eval for $390 that insurance will not cover (it becomes a medical issue at that point). The second eval will determine whether vision therapy will help/what she needs.
They tell me that vision therapy would run about $2100/three months. I did ask whether he'd be able to objectively distinguish btwn a neurological functioning issue like dyslexia vs a mechanical issue like convergence insufficiency with the initial exam and they said yes.
Their website says that they provide therapy for both (i.e. - it sounds like they provide vision therapy for dyslexia, AD/HD, LDs as well as convergence issues). I'm disinclined to seek the second more expensive round of vision testing or vision therapy if the issue seems to be more LD/dyslexia related. Dh is convinced that they're going to tell me that she has convergence issues regardless of what they find.
Thoughts on any of this?
eta: one other thought. There is a general "eye center" clinic in town that has one OD on staff and that also lists vision therapy as among their services, but it seems to be a much, much smaller part of their practice than the place where we have the apt. I'm second guessing and wondering if we should just go there and have the routine exam done mentioning the questions we have re convergence insufficiency and see what they find. I'm wondering if a place that doesn't specialize in this type of work might be less capable of finding a problem but also less likely to find a false positive.
Last edited by Cricket2; 08/27/12 12:00 PM.
