# Medical versus routine eye care

A term used when buying optometry practice.

Eye disease billed to health insurance, against routine exams and glasses paid another way.

The mix decides both reimbursement and defensibility. Medical eye care bills to health insurance, pays better, and brings patients back on a clinical schedule rather than a fashion one, which makes it stickier against online competition. Ask for the split and the trend, and find out whether the doctor is credentialed with the medical plans, because a practice that wants to shift this way cannot until that paperwork is done.

Part of: Buying an Optometry Practice (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-an-optometry-practice)

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-an-optometry-practice/terms/medical-versus-routine-eye-care
Not dated: The same editorial definitions as the glossary, inside a trade.

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