No, THIS is what you need to buy! reminded me of something that happened to Mom when I was a kid.
We were on a specific HMO through Dad's job and got our medical treatments through them - all doctor's visits except for dental. Which included getting our eyes checked.
I don't remember a lot about them when it comes to eye exams... except for the time where they pulled some dumb bullshit on mom and tried to make her buy glasses from them.
Mom ALWAYS got us glasses from the same optician as long as I can remember - I'll call him Mr. B. His shop was about 6 miles from us. We probably could have gotten glasses a little closer to home by using the mall, but with Mr. B... his prices were lower (and lower than the HMO's prices too I think). I suspect a lot of that was simply because he was the owner and, other than having a visiting optometrist to write prescriptions, he had no one else there. (which may have been part of what kept the prices down).
But this one time Mom used the HMO for the prescriptions and they decided they were going to dispense them. They flatly REFUSED to give her the prescription because they wanted her to buy the glasses from them.
I think she had to argue for a good 15 minutes at least until they finally relented.
Seriously that shit wasn't legal. I mean it's one thing for a doctor to refuse to write a prescription... but it's an ENTIRELY different ball of wax to write the prescription and refuse to hand it over simply because they've decided you have to buy it from them.
But in the end Mom won... and Mr. B filled the 'script for our glasses.
We were on a specific HMO through Dad's job and got our medical treatments through them - all doctor's visits except for dental. Which included getting our eyes checked.
I don't remember a lot about them when it comes to eye exams... except for the time where they pulled some dumb bullshit on mom and tried to make her buy glasses from them.
Mom ALWAYS got us glasses from the same optician as long as I can remember - I'll call him Mr. B. His shop was about 6 miles from us. We probably could have gotten glasses a little closer to home by using the mall, but with Mr. B... his prices were lower (and lower than the HMO's prices too I think). I suspect a lot of that was simply because he was the owner and, other than having a visiting optometrist to write prescriptions, he had no one else there. (which may have been part of what kept the prices down).
But this one time Mom used the HMO for the prescriptions and they decided they were going to dispense them. They flatly REFUSED to give her the prescription because they wanted her to buy the glasses from them.
I think she had to argue for a good 15 minutes at least until they finally relented.
Seriously that shit wasn't legal. I mean it's one thing for a doctor to refuse to write a prescription... but it's an ENTIRELY different ball of wax to write the prescription and refuse to hand it over simply because they've decided you have to buy it from them.
But in the end Mom won... and Mr. B filled the 'script for our glasses.
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