It had been a while, and I had new vision insurance so I figured hey, this won't be too bad, and I had thought my prescription might have changed. So I go schedule an appointment at VisionWorks at the Avenues Mall. It ended up costing me $60 with insurance, but I got 12 months worth of contacts for free, so that was cool with me.
Fast forward a year. I am going snowboarding with my dad this weekend and I am on my last pair of contacts. If case they get knocked out or I have any issues, I'd like to have a new set ready. And I need to get new ones anyways since I've been wearing these ones about 3-4 weeks anyways (yes I know I should change them sooner.) So I call a local vision place that takes my new vision insurance (VSP), and they tell me that to fill any orders they need my prescription. Well, I don't have my prescription written down anywhere now, I just have a box of my contacts.
So I call up VisionWorks and ask if I can get contacts through them. No, they say, they cannot sell me lens since my prescription expired. Sigh. It expired last month, December 2008. So I ask if I can get a copy of my prescription from them again so I can go to a new optometrist and order lens there. They tell me no, and say they cannot release MY prescription to me (what the fuck?), because it's expired, but they could release it directly to my new optometrist. I say fine and hang up.
So I call back this other local place and talk to them again. They can get my original prescription from VisionWorks, but they won't fill an order for contacts until I take another vision exam.
FANTASTIC.
So now I get to pay another $60 so they can tell me that my fucking prescription is still the same, and give me the exact same contacts again. My prescription in 2007 was the same as it was in 2005, so I doubt in the last 12 months it has changed either.
The health care industry can lick my balls.
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