Optical Treatment
Please check your specific membership plan to make sure that this benefit is included in your level of cover. These terms are not specific to Essentials and Tailored membership plans.
We will pay benefit for optical treatment, at the appropriate rate and up to the appropriate maximum in any one calendar year.
When you send us the claim form, you must also send us an original receipt showing your name, the date of treatment or payment and the optician’s official stamp.
What is covered
- Contact lenses (permanent or disposable)
- Contact lens check-ups
- Contact lens solutions (including if you buy these separately)
- Eye laser surgery to correct long- and shortsightedness
- Eyesight tests
- Lenses you buy separately to fit to existing frames
- Lenses supplied under an optical insurance plan
- Prescribed glasses
- Prescribed magnifying glasses
- Repairs to prescribed glasses
- Sunglasses, safety glasses and swimming goggles (as long as they have prescribed lenses)
- Worldwide cover during business visits and holidays abroad that last up to 28 days
What is not covered
- Insurance premiums
- Non-prescribed glasses and contact lenses (for example, ready-made glasses and coloured lenses)
- Optical consumables (for example, glasses cases)
- Frames you buy separately
