Coast to Coast Vision™ (CTC) has over 12,000 eye care locations nationwide. Members save on eyeglasses, contacts and laser surgery. The CTC provider network is the most thorough in the U.S. It includes ophthalmologists, optometrists, independent optical centers and most national chains.
Vision Care Plan Highlights
- Save 20% to 60% on prescription eyewear.
- Most frames, lenses and specialty items like tints, coatings and UV protection are available at a discount.
- Save 10% to 20% on contact lenses (excluding disposables) at participating locations.
- Save 10%-40% on soft contact lenses, including disposables, through America’s Eyewear mail order service.
- Save 10 to 30% on eye exams at participating locations.
- Save 40% to 50% off the national average on LASIK (other laser surgeries available at select locations).
- No limit to the number of times you can use your card.
- Thirty day money-back guarantee and low price guarantee on eyeglasses.
- Members may submit the name of their eye care professional to join the network.
Note: Vision Benefit is not available to Vermont residents.
Ophthalmology and Laser Surgery
Savings of 10% to 30% on eye exams and surgical procedures, including LASIK where available. Through QualSight LASIK, you may save 40% to 50% off the overall national average on LASIK surgery (PRK and CK available at select locations).
We contract with ophthalmologists (M.D.s) in selected markets across the country to provide you with discounts on eyeglasses, contact lenses, eye exams, and surgical procedures (including PRK and LASIK surgery) where available. If there is not an ophthalmologist in your area, you may give the doctor's name, address, and phone number to our representative and your doctor will be invited to join the program.
In keeping with our tradition of utilizing both chain and independent providers, we contract with national chains of laser surgery centers to provide discounts on refractive laser surgery. In addition, we contract with independent ophthalmologists who also provide discounts on refractive surgery.
Vision Care Plan Statistics
"Among people age 40 and older, more than 3.6 million are visually impaired, defined as 20/40 or worse in the best-seeing eye even when vision is corrected by eyeglasses or contact lenses."
- Vision Problems in the U.S. report, by the National Eye Institute and Prevent Blindness America, 2008
"More than 150 million Americans use corrective eyewear to compensate for their refractive error. Americans spend more than $15 billion each year on eyewear."
- Vision Problems in the U.S. report, by the National Eye Institute and Prevent Blindness America, 2008
"In 2009, AllAboutVision.com commissioned a report from a leading industry analyst who found that wavefront LASIK combined with IntraLase and similar technologies costs an average of $2,314, compared with $1,748 for conventional LASIK."
- AllAboutVision.com 2009
"Most contact lens wearers (84 percent) return to their eye doctor for a comprehensive eye exam every year, whereas most patients who don’t wear contact lenses (61 percent) have complete eye exams every two years."
- Contact Lenses 2009. Contact Lens Spectrum. January 2010
"Among adults with vision problems, 62.3% reported having seen an eye care professional in the previous 12 months."
- Zhang X, Lee PP, Thompson TJ, et al. Health insurance coverage and use of eye care services. Arch Ophthalmol 2008;126(8):1121–1126.
"In 2004-2006, 17 percent of young adults aged 18-29 years reported needing but not receiving one or more of the following services in the past year because they could not afford them: medical care, prescription medicines, mental health care, or eyeglasses."
- CDC/National Center for Health Statistics, June 11, 2009
Vision Care Plan - Price Comparison
Example 1 - New York, NY |
Regular Exam (Ophthalmologist) |
$150.00 |
CTC Member pays: |
$120.00 |
Savings: |
$30.00 |
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Conventional Lasik: |
$5,500.00 |
CTC Member Pays: |
$3,600.00 |
Savings: |
$1,900.00 |
TOTAL SAVINGS = $1,930.00 |
Example 2 - Dallas, TX |
Regular Exam (Ophthalmologist) |
$190.00 |
CTC Member pays: |
$133.00 |
Savings: |
$57.00 |
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Frames (Regular) |
$89.95 |
CTC Member Pays: |
$54.47 |
Savings: |
$31.48 |
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Progressive / Polycarbonate |
$209.00 |
CTC Member pays: |
$156.75 |
Savings: |
$52.25 |
TOTAL SAVINGS = $140.73 |
Example 3 - Tampa, FL |
Extended Exam (Ophthalmologist) |
$225.00 |
CTC Member pays: |
$157.50 |
Savings: |
$67.50 |
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Frames (Designer) |
$200.00 |
CTC Member Pays: |
$72.72 |
Savings: |
$127.28 |
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Single Vision Lens (Plastic) |
$170.00 |
CTC Member pays: |
$110.50 |
Savings: |
$59.50 |
TOTAL SAVINGS = $254.28 |
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