Just rec'd some info on the Inspire and Inspire HD lenses, looks like a VSP has a private label lens. Only VSP members can order this lens, made by Essilor.
Has anyone used this lens as of yet?????
Just rec'd some info on the Inspire and Inspire HD lenses, looks like a VSP has a private label lens. Only VSP members can order this lens, made by Essilor.
Has anyone used this lens as of yet?????
Sounds suspiciously like the VSP/Carl Zeiss partnership for the Reveal Lens and Reveal FreeForm. That lens is only available in the Southern and Western US through VSP labs.
Where is the Inspire available to order?
A lack of planning on your part DOES NOT constitute an emergency on mine!
It's available after April 14, only in Indiana, Michigan, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland,Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC.
DragonlensmanWV N.A.O.L.
"There is nothing patriotic about hating your government or pretending you can hate your government but love your country."
Capture ratios...Private label lenses...
Why not try to compete on the open market like the rest of us indies!
If it sounds like sour grapes, it's because I especially don't like the possibility that private, Non VSP ECPs will be paying a higher price for what is, by all intents and purposes, similar lens technology as Reveal & Inspire. Subsidizing these lens manufacturer's ability to offer lower pricing to VSP and other large chains is not within my latest business plan.
Thoughts?
Barry
We recieved the same packet last week too and have no intentions of selling this to our VSP patients. We have been selling Varilux lenses to the same VSP patients for years and see no reason to switch to a different essilor lens. I am not really sure who they are trying to capture here, it appears to be the same price as the physio lens we now use and no better? We pitched the packet, except the nifty vertex ruler, we kept that! :bbg:
Yeah, the vertex/panto measure is nifty!
DragonlensmanWV N.A.O.L.
"There is nothing patriotic about hating your government or pretending you can hate your government but love your country."
We received it late last week and the dumpster already took it away. I'm wondering how close it is to the Vision Source lenses..
The VSP lab rep stopped in the other day with more info. I was honest and told her that we probably would continue to use what we already use but thank you anyway. What she really wanted was to recruit us to use the VSP lab for all of our jobs. Mmm, no.
The INSPIRE lens.
Hmmm.
Hmmmmmmmmm.
I am INSPIRED to not use this product!
;):cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers::D
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There's a list of labs on the propaganda. I tossed mine already, but I remember Southern Richmond was on it - they're wholly owned (Sealey).
anybody has that list I would LOVE to see it! I'll PM you my fax #
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -H. Jackson Brown Jr.
If the only tool you have is a hammer you will approach every problem as though it were a nail
VSP LAB Columbus, ohio
Optical Supply
Bell Optical, Twinsburg
Bell Optical, Huntington
Bell optical, Dayton
Top Network, Columbus OH
Omega
DSouthern Optical, Richmond
Precision Optics, St Cloud
Bell Duffens
Twin City, Traverse City
Twin City, Minneapolis
Here is a thought. I wonder how VSP will market this lens, I wonder if they will market this lens to all there members via mailings etc. IF they educate the member population on this lens, we VSP providers may not have a choice BUT to sell this lens when a member comes in asking for it.
This is a Zeiss product, not Essilor.
The printed product info I have say Essilor all over it.
[QUOTE=midohioeye; IF they educate the member population on this lens, we VSP providers may not have a choice BUT to sell this lens when a member comes in asking for it. [/QUOTE]
So sell it then. The worst that can happen is a remake which is on VSP's dime. If the patient comes in asking for it all you can do is tell them that you haven't used it yet but if they would like to give it a try than sure, we'll do that.
They are offering a pair to VSP providers and/or their employees. We declined but if you want to try it yourself just contact your VSP lab rep or VSP or one of the labs listed.
The labs that process the Reveal Lens are:
VSP Labs, Sacramento, CA
VSP Legends 4.0, Lewisville, TX
Ultra Lens Optical, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Carl Zeiss Vision Kentucky, Hebron, KY
Carl Zeiss Vision Northwest, Clackamas, OR
Cumberland Optical Co., Nashville, TN
Laser Optics, Tempe, AZ
Carl Zeiss Vision SOCAL / Specto Optical Co, Montclair, CA
Vision Systems Ophthalmic Labs, Riverdale, GA
Tri-City Optical, Clearwater, FL
Perfect Optics, Vista, CA
Carl Zeiss Vison Texas, Lewisville, TX
Also note that VSP doctors receive an additional $10 when ordered through Eyefinity.
Again, this is the Reveal Lens from VSP and Zeiss.
A lack of planning on your part DOES NOT constitute an emergency on mine!
thats funny... i didnt think VSP would move away from its normal bedmate (essilor) and make an exclusive product with zeiss... so now they are just working both sides of the fence.
i was told the reveal was very similar to the GT2, and the GT2 HD
so now i wonder if the inspire is pretty much a Physio and physio 360
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