Vision for a Lifetime

Pepose Vision Institute knows that your concern about your eyesight doesn't end the day after LASIK has brought your world into crisp, clear focus, so we're dedicated to doing everything we can to assure our patients lifelong, quality vision.

LASIK and related vision correction procedures have been proven to be the most stable answer to nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. But Pepose Vision Institute goes the extra mile. We make a lifelong commitment to your newly restored vision.

We are pleased to offer qualified vision correction patients free enrollment in our Vision Correction for a Lifetime program. Unlike other providers who charge extra for this coverage, our coverage is included in your initial surgical fee. Yet another value that we bring to our vision correction patients!

About Our Vision Correction for a Lifetime Program

During the first year after initial vision correction surgery, our patients receive touchups free of charge, when medically indicated. Beyond this first year, touchups continue to be offered free of surgical fees, when medically indicated. Patients will only pay laser facility and post-operative care fees, and applicable royalties or taxes.

Eligibility

Patients must have annual eye exams performed at Pepose Vision Institute or by your co-managing vision correction eye care provider, within three months of the anniversary date of the original surgery (patients are responsible for annual exam visit fees). These exams assure that unrelated eye conditions can be addressed so as not to diminish the benefit of your vision correction surgery.

In addition to having an annual eye exam performed at Pepose Vision Institute or by your co-managing vision correction eye care provider, touchups after the first year are free of surgical fees as long as:

  • The touchup is medically advisable, in a programmable range of refraction, with residual spherical equivalent of one diopter or more, and corrective lenses improve uncorrected vision by at least 3 lines on the acuity chart.
  • Patient's uncorrected vision following initial surgery or enhancement during the first year is within 3 lines of the pre-operative best spectacle-corrected vision, as recorded at the one-year postoperative visit, and refractive outcome at the one year post-operative visit is of spherical equivalent of less than or equal to +/- 0.75D.
Exclusions

While the vast majority of our laser vision correction patients are eligible for our lifetime program, exclusions apply in the following situations:

  • Loss of vision as a result of eye disease, pathology or trauma
  • Amblyopia
  • Corneas that by calculated corneal thickness are too thin to advise treatment, or corneas that show evidence of ectasia
  • Irregular astigmatism
  • Previous refractive surgery not performed by Pepose Vision Institute
  • Patients with cataracts, glaucoma, corneal, retinal or optic nerve pathology, or stroke, except for those cataract patients who have previously had multifocal lenses implanted by Pepose Vision Institute
  • LASIK following cataract extraction or corneal transplantation
  • Refractive changes resulting from developing presbyopia
  • Patients with pre-operative myopic spherical equivalent of greater than or equal to 11 diopters or astigmatism equal to or greater than 3.0 diopters
  • Patients using contact lenses after first anniversary of refractive surgery
  • Original vision correction treatment was prior to September 1999