- New network relationship enables millions of UnitedHealthcare
Vision plan participants to purchase custom eyewear for little or no
out-of-pocket cost starting in 2018
- Relationship marks the first time Warby Parker is accepting
vision insurance
Company Website:
http://www.uhc.com
MINNETONKA, Minn. -- (Business Wire)
People enrolled in UnitedHealthcare employer-sponsored and individual
vision plans can access Warby Parker’s designer prescription eyewear at
affordable prices, online or at any of the more than 50 stores
nationwide, beginning in 2018. This marks the first time Warby Parker is
accepting vision insurance, and will enable millions of people to
purchase prescription eyewear for only their copay.
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A new collaboration with Warby Parker will enable millions of UnitedHealthcare Vision plan participants to purchase custom eyewear, online and in stores across the country for little or no out-of-pocket cost, starting in 2018 (Photo: Warby Parker).
“Warby Parker is constantly exploring new ways to provide people access
to affordable, high-quality and fashionable eyewear,” said Dave Gilboa,
co-founder and co-CEO of Warby Parker. “We look forward to working with
UnitedHealthcare, nationwide, to enable millions of Americans to
purchase their eyewear at a fraction of the price they might pay through
traditional channels.”
As people now enter the open enrollment season for 2018 health benefits,
this new relationship will help meet the eye-care needs for
UnitedHealthcare plan participants nationwide.
“Warby Parker and UnitedHealthcare will help more Americans access
designer eyewear at affordable prices to help meet the eye-care needs of
the people we serve,” said Tom Wiffler, CEO, UnitedHealthcare Specialty
Benefits. “We are grateful Warby Parker selected UnitedHealthcare to be
its first in-network vision plan.”
About Warby Parker
Warby Parker
was founded with a rebellious spirit and a lofty objective: to offer
designer eyewear at a revolutionary price, while leading the way for
socially conscious businesses. Every idea starts with a problem. Theirs
was simple: glasses are too expensive. By circumventing traditional
channels, designing glasses in-house, and engaging with customers
directly, they’re able to provide higher-quality, better-looking
prescription eyewear starting at $95 (a fraction of the going price).
Warby Parker also believes that everyone has the right to see. Almost
one billion people worldwide lack access to glasses, which means that
15% of the world’s population cannot effectively learn or work. To help
address this problem, Warby Parker partners with non-profits like
VisionSpring to ensure that for every pair of glasses sold, a pair is
distributed to someone in need.
About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare
is dedicated to helping people nationwide live healthier lives by
simplifying the health care experience, meeting consumer health and
wellness needs, and sustaining trusted relationships with care
providers. The company offers the full spectrum of health benefit
programs for individuals, employers, military service members, retirees
and their families, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and
contracts directly with more than 1 million physicians and care
professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and other care facilities nationwide.
UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:
UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and well-being company. For more
information, visit UnitedHealthcare at www.uhc.com
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Contacts:
UnitedHealthcare
Will Shanley, 714-204-8005
will.shanley@uhc.com
or
Warby
Parker
Ashley Freudenheim, 646-362-4694
Ashley@derris.com
Source: UnitedHealthcare
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