Medicare Part A will cover the standard, hard lens implant surgery, but the soft corrective lenses are not covered by any insurance carrier and strictly an out of pocket deal. We have a separate Blue-Cross/Blue-Shield eye insurance program, but the implants are excluded from the coverage. It just covers the basics.

The hard lenses can fog up after 3 or more years, however, this is quickly corrected with a simple, painless laser procedure done in office. The soft, corrective lenses can pop free. I had a bad coughing spell a few months ago and suddenly went blind in my left eye. The blindness was kind of weird, everything turned grey - not black, but the with some saline eye drops, the problem resolved in a few hours. Really scary, though. The eye doc said she didn't have a clue what happened, but some online research revealed this can happen.

Good luck,

Gary