vision therapy testing

[CalicoKat]

ack, our eye insurance will cover the initial exam/testing. But this optometrist doesn't take our major medical which is what they bill for the actual therapy.

So to find out if I need to go further she's having the testing today -- thanks to a last minute cancellation in their schedule.

But if she does in fact need therapy then I'll have to find a place that takes our major medical.

[EKS]

Have you checked to see if you insurance covers VT? I know that many times it doesn't.

[wapiti]

We paid out of pocket.

Let us know how the appointment goes!

[MomofC&A]

We also paid $4800 out of pocket over five years ago. That was for once a week for 10 months.

[EKS]

We paid out of pocket too. Two kids, 24 months total.

[CalicoKat]

We paid out of pocket.

Let us know how the appointment goes!
We have a dx: Ocular Motor Dysfunction & Visual Processing Deficits. AND a pair of pink reading glasses.

Our eye insurance covered this appointment and the glasses. What comes next I have to call our major medical to see if they will (mostly likely won't) pay for.

They want to do a Visual Efficiency Evaluation and Visual Processing Evaluation afte she's got her reading glasses. Both appointments are $200.

She will need therapy but we won't know until after those two appointments how many weeks of therapy.

Therapy is 1/week and a hour of "home work" every day. $150 per therapy session.

[wapiti]

Well that's interesting. I wonder what they do at those additional evaluations. It's been a couple of years since my dd did her VT, plus different docs do things differently. I'm feeling a desire to have more evaluations, only because recent testing showed a visual processing issue that is probably unrelated to the eye tracking issue she had before VT. Ocular motor dysfunction is a subset of sensory processing issues, and it's possible that OT could help also (it did for my dd).

FWIW, two years ago we paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $2500 for 24 weekly appointments, and that included occasional progress checks with the optometrist. IMO, doing the daily homework is critical to success.

Glad you didn't go back to the opthamologist? I guess that'll depend on what happens next.

What will the reading glasses do? Are they just regular reading glasses, or do they do something special? Just wondering.