Do you wear contact lenses?
Well if you
do you know how important it is to make
sure you always have them on hand and
stay up to date on your annual eye exam
right?
So imagine if there was a company
that took care of all of this.
They found you a local doctor, paid for
your eye exam, delivered your contacts
for an entire year so you never had to
remember to do any of this yourself
again.
I love this!
Well there is a place and it's
called Sightbox-- joining me now to
talk about how Sightbox is simplifying
Vision Care is CEO Travis Rush, good
morning.
Good morning.
Thanks for being here.
I'm excited because let me tell you
why because my girls will always say
“mommy I'm running out of contacts and
there's only one left” Really?
Like you put that
pressure on me?
So let's talk about how
it works and how you came up with this?
So I've been wearing contacts since I
was eight-- You're like my brother he's
blind as a bat-- My father and my sister are both
optometrists so I've been embedded in this world
of eye care my whole life
whether I wanted to be or not and in
that, learning for my dad especially as a
kid learning about all the things surrounding
eye care, it's not just about being able to
see, there's a lot that goes on inside of
there and so looking at that, looking at
how complicated Vision Care is, the
concerns in the healthcare world in
general of people just not knowing how
much things are gonna cost, is there a
copay, is there gonna be a bill that
comes a month later that they didn't
know they were going to get.
So people
procrastinate and then they don't go.
And they have to go, I still get
that annual exam, very, very important right?
So what we do to make
sure that that happens is we do the whole
year.
So we, we plan that eye exam for you
when you sign up, we find a doctor--
unless you have one already you can
definitely let us know and we'll we'll
work things out with that doctor, but if
you don't we'll find you an eye doctor
near where you live or work that fits
your schedule, we booked the appointment.
You're like a secretary.
Pay for the
appointment, yes it's a very nice
concierge service for eye care.
When your exam is done and you're
done with the trial lenses or whatever
follow-up visits you may have, we collect
the prescription and then we
overnight your first box of contacts and then
ship those throughout the rest of the
year as you need them so you don't run
out.
So you still need a prescription,
that's imperitive?
Absolutely it is a medical device and the
FDA regulates the industry-- you are
putting something in your eyeball and so
an eye doctor needs to make sure that
you have the right lens-- there are
hundreds of thousands of different
parameters and brands and types of lenses, and
so it's really important that that an
eye doctor be part of that process to make
sure that you're getting the right
one.
What brands do you support?
I know my daughter's use, I want to save
dailies.
The most common are two-week lenses that
you throw away every two weeks, there are
monthly lenses you throw away once a
month, then there are daily lenses you throw
away every night.
There are a lot of
different brands, we support all of them--
all of the major brands of lenses are
provided by us so.
And how do you find the
doctors because a lot of people, like you
said, I have mine and you said I could use them, but
how do you search for them?
So it's
based on number one proximity to where
you live or work, wherever you're coming
from for the appointment we try to make
it as convenient as possible.
So we're
first off making sure that they can fit
you in at the time that you'd like to be
fit in and then it's based on the
quality of the eye care.
You know we're
not looking for the cheapest contact, you know lenses fitting
eye exam combination we're looking for
quality eye care that's convenient for
our members and then we let the
doctors make all the decisions about what
lenses.
And how does SightBpx differ from
let's say vision insurance?
So first off vision
insurance is not insurance and if you go
look at what it actually is, it is a
payment plan for vision care and it doesn't
cover everything.
Most of the time you end up
paying a lot of out-of-pocket for your
contact lenses because the vision plan
only covers the exam and it only covers
part of the exam, so that's a big
difference.
We cover everything.
We're managing it all.
You're taking care of my needs.
Yeah we're not just giving you a
place to go search on the web to find a
doctor, we actually do it all for you and
manage the whole process.
What about cost?
So our two-week and monthly lenses
are $39 a month.
Oh!
That includes all of your contacts
for an entire year, plus your eye exam
with any eye doctor in the country.
Sounds like a bargain, like a win-win.
We have no network of doctors so if
it's a doctor that you want to go see
well make it happen.
So Travis for our
viewers who'd like to learn more where
can they go?
SighBox dot come and it's spelled s-i-g-h-t-b-o-x,
like vision.
Thank you so much appreciate your time.
You have beautiful eyes
too by the way, and if you'd like more
information on Sightbox you can also go
to our website and that's thebalancingact.com
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