Want to spend any time at all doing a optometric vision exam.

They just don’t do these things. An ophthalmologist earns 4 or 5 times as much as an optometrist and there is a reason for that.

The services they provide are totally different. In offices where there are both ophthalmologists and optometrists the optometrists do the routine vision exams and if there are medical issues found in the exam a referral to the ophthalmologist is made.

My opinion is if the office in question has both MDs and ODs and the patients requested a routine annual vision exam then the office should bill for the routine vision exam and eat the medical visit.

If the patient called an ophthalmology office where there are no optometrists present then that’s not on the office.

Learning experience here. Don’t call an ophthalmologist for a non medical annual vision exam.