Insurance Information

TACOMA FAMILY EYECARE makes every effort to keep our eye care services easily accessible and affordable for our patients and their families.

TACOMA FAMILY EYECARE is pleased to announce that we have agreed to offer our HOSTS MEMBERS ( COSTCO MEMBERSHIP PLAN) a combined ‘routine’ vision service at a low warehouse price.(Invoiced as S0620 & S0621, these combined ‘routine’ services are not billable to or reimbursed by Medicare, Medicaid, or Insurance).

We offer a variety of PAYMENT OPTIONS including: CASH, CHECK, DEBIT and CREDIT CARDS.

For those warehouse members that wish to use their pre-paid vision care or medical insurance benefits instead of their COSTCO MEMBERSHIP PLAN, we also are contracted with and are preferred providers for a number of membership groups, and third party payers (INSURANCE COMPANIES). We are happy to bill on your behalf and in strict accordance to the CPT* coding and billing guidelines.   We are accredited and contracted with the following payers.

    • HMA
    • Regence Group Administrators
    • Blue Cross / Blue Shield (some plans)
    • Premera Blue Cross/Lifewise
    • Aetna (non-HMO plans only)
    • United Health Spectera (formerly known as Optum Health Vision)
    • United Healthcare
    • Medicaid / DSHS (AmBetter aka Coordinated Care, Community Health Plan of WA, United Health Community Plan, CNP, ABP, L-MNP as long as your spend down is met)
    • Northwest Benefit Network
    • First Choice Network–ONLY if your vision is not sourced out to a 3rd party vision vendor such as VSP, Eyemed, Davis, or Metlife (includes First Choice Multicare, EBMS, Allegiance, TPSC, Zenith American Solutions, Moda Health)
    • Eyemed vision (ONLY for Costco employees and their families)
    • Willow Health
    • Puyallup Tribal Health Authority–please make sure you have told PTHA to send us a referral
    • VA referred–please make sure you have told the VA to send us a referral
    • Tricare (Active-Duty Family, Reserve, and Select plans only)
    • Kaiser Permanente (non-HMO plans only)
    • USFHP (US Family Health Plan)

We are open-access providers for VSP** (includes but not limited to Uniform Medical Plan, Regence Blue Shield, City of Tacoma, Starbucks, Alaska Airlines, Amazon), Davis Vision, Eyemed, Metlife, Molina, BlueView, Superior Vision, Cigna, and Humana. As an open-access provider, we are not contracted directly with your insurance but we can provide you with services and still utilize your benefits.

You would pay for services directly to our office. We will provide you with an itemized receipt for you to self-submit for payment directly back to you according to your plan rules in 3-4 weeks.

**VSP – along with your itemized receipt, we will provide you with the VSP reimbursement form and an addressed envelope to VSP for you to self-submit.

Costco Optical is contracted with VSP, Davis Vision, and Eyemed so they will bill your glasses/contact lens purchases directly for you.

This will allow us to continue to care for your eye care needs and to utilize your vision benefits.

*CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.