Question: What is the average cost to maintain contact lenses?

Policies vary, but most will charge a fee to see you the first time
to
assess your current lenses, discuss what you don't like about them,
discuss what you want from contacts and to take some measurements
that
will be used to determine what kind of lens might work. They can't
give you a price over the phone because they don't know if you will
need a spherical, toric, multifocal or custom lens and fees vary with
complexity of case.

If you decide to get lenses, then there is a fitting or refitting
fee.
Refitting is usually less as you already know how to handle lenses,
but
in switching from hard to soft it may be more. Fitiing fee usually
covers follow up visits and adjustments to the fit for some period of
time (ask how long).


Fees will depend upon what kind of lenses you get, some will have a
"bundled" fee that includes lenses and solutions, some don't.
Expect
soft, multifocal disposable lenses to to cost $400 -$600/ yr for
fees,
lenses and care solutions.


Dr Judy