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Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), or Cafeteria Plans, Allow Patients to Use Pre-Tax Dollars to Pay for LASIK — But Funds Need to Be Used by the end of the Plan Year.

A flexible spending account can be set up with your employer to allow you to use pre-tax dollars to pay for LASIK or PRK laser vision correction eye surgery at the Shapiro Laser Eye Center. A Flexible Spending Account (FSA) also is referred to as a Flex Plan, a Reimbursement Account, Flex 125 Plan, Tax […]

LASIK, Nursing, and Pregnancy

I do not recommend having LASIK until eight weeks after pregnancy and nursing since vision can change during pregnancy and it is best not to expose the baby to absorbed eye drops. A woman from Thousand Oaks called our office today asking if she could have LASIK now that she had found out she was […]

LASIK Laser Eye Surgery and Ocular (Eye) Acne Rosacea

Acne Rosacea can cause dry eyes (“ocular rosacea”) which, in turn, can affect LASIK. Patients with ocular rosacea often can have LASIK if rosacea dry eye is treated before surgery. Acne rosacea is a skin disorder which affects the nose, cheeks,chin and forehead. In this condition, the skin becomes oily, bumpy and red. Small red […]

LASIK Satisfaction: Physicians As LASIK Patients are Satisfied

Study: When physicians (medical doctors) have LASIK on their own eyes, satisfaction rates are very high. Physicians, or medical doctors (M.D.’s) represent the a very knowledgeable and even skeptical group of patients. Physicians also have a particularly high demand for outstanding vision. I personally have performed LASIK and PRK (“flapless LASIK”) on quite a few […]