Here’s good news for everybody who may be using contact lenses. If you don’t know it yet, it is quite possible to pay for your contact lenses and contact lens solution using FSA.

FSA means Flexible Spending Account, which is a fund that allows one to pay for certain medical expenses using pre-tax money.

There are many medical expenses eligible for it and contact lenses are just one of them. You can also use FSA for paying for your purchases done online. If your employer includes FSA in your benefits, now is the time to take full advantage of it. FSA funds expire after a certain time. After the deadline, the funds become unusable.

FSA is backed up by a provider and they are the one who know the dates when the fund can be used. To know more about your FSA privileges, talk to your provider or employer about it. Once you have learned that you are enrolled in such a program, know the details of your membership and the expiration date that you should be concerned about.

Once you start using FSA to pay for your contact lenses purchases, track your annual balance. This way, so you can squeeze in more medical expenses if still possible before the deadline. An FSA debit card is usually issued to eligible members and all purchases are tracked through FSA card.

For those who are enrolled under FSA but don’t have the card yet, it is still possible to use the funds allotted to you by paper claims. Just pay for your contact lenses purchased online using a regular credit card. You only have to keep your receipts or invoices so you can get reimbursed for the items that you bought.

FSA is indeed the most economical way to get your contact lenses. Once you get the hang of using it, you may not have to pay for your contact lenses out of your own pocket any more.

Other Flexible Spending Account eligible expenses include

• Dental care and orthodontia, such as fillings, X-rays, braces, caps and mouth guards
• Vision care, including eyeglasses, contact lenses, solutions and supplies, and LASIK eye surgery
• Preventive care not covered under your health plan (vaccines, flu shots and diagnostic tests, for example)

Since FSA follows the rule of ‘use it or lose it‘, we recommend you to use the remaining funds to purchase one year supply’s of corrective contact lenses within the coverage period.

Walmart has been a big brand name over the years and what started as a single family venture in 1962 soon emerged as one of America’s leading discount retail chain with hundreds of outlet in the country.

Everyday requirements for the common man are available at Walmart. Added with the low pricing ranges and the maximized returns through discounts, Walmart has now become a household name in the US over the years.

Walmart Vision Centers

Walmart has it own Vision Centers located in over 2000 of its outlets. These Vision Centers provide the services of individual optometrists to provide customers with expert opinion and advice to customers looking for contact lenses as well as cheap eye exam. Walmart contact lenses are available under various brand names and at low prices – reasonable enough to meet the demands of the common man. Most of these contact lenses are suggested by the optometrists after a careful examination of the eyes and only when the customer actually needs contact lenses to augment the vision without the hassle of glasses.

Buying contact lenses at Walmart comes with the same iron clad guarantee as is available for all Walmart products. These guarantees are provided by the respective contact lens manufacturers so the customer knows that he or she is making the right choice.

Like in any reputed contact lens clinic, customers of Walmart are given the same attention. The professionals attending to them are experts with years of experience behind them and they give a host of advices and tips that would help them keep their contact lenses performing like new. These contact lenses are available from a wide range of contact lens manufacturers and Walmart is combining a process to deliver these contact lenses directly to the customers without delay and without the customer having to call back to know the status of the dispatch.

Walmart is geared to meet the demands of all contact lens customers. That is why they have in inventory close to 10 million different types of contact lenses so that delivery can be affected as quickly as possible and without having to run around looking for what the doctor has prescribed to the customer.

And in a win-win partnership with 1-800 CONTACTS, Walmart offers greater accessibility and savings on contact lenses. In fact, Walmart has put in place a unique phone number 1-800-CONTACTS to provide a quick simple menu driven facility to order new contact lenses and replace your existing ones.

Large scale inventory and volume sales give the benefit of huge savings to Walmart Vision Centers and they pass on these savings to the customers directly in the form of low prices for the best ranged contact lenses. It is believed that a single day sale of Walmart Contacts combine together the sale of about more than 2500 specialty retail optical stores in America.