Insurance
Austin Retina physicians are participating specialist providers for Medicare, Medicaid, and most managed care plans. Many insurance companies and HMO’s require that you obtain written authorization from your primary care physician before any office visit, diagnostic procedure, or treatment. Please check with your medical insurance provider or contact our office for assistance with these issues before your appointment.
Although the treatment of retinal diseases may involve significant technology and complex services, we attempt to minimize the cost in several ways:
- We perform our surgery on an outpatient basis, thus reducing the length of the hospital stay. By doing special testing, lasers, and minor surgical procedures in our office, we are able to eliminate “facility fees.”
- We offer financial assistance to patients receiving injections and are dedicated to serving all in our community
- Our nationally recognized Research Center is also an optional treatment path for patients who qualify
- We are constantly updating and reviewing our techniques to ensure the best possible, most cost-effective surgical and medical outcomes.
We accept patients who do not have insurance and are happy to personalize payment arrangements on an individual basis. Like your eyes, each medical treatment plan is unique. Patients who are private pay can inquire about pricing by contacting our office and reviewing our financial policy found on page three of our new patient packet.
Insurance Plans
Austin Retina Associates participates in the following insurance plans. For a specific listing of each individual physician participating list, please contact our office.
- AARP
- Aetna (most commercial plans)
- Aetna Medicare
- Allwell (through Superior Health plan)
- Amerigroup
- Amerivantage
- Amerivantage Wellmed
- Blue Cross Blue Shield (not BAV plans)
- Baylor Scott &White
- Champ VA
- Cigna (most commercial plans)
- Community Care Collaborative
- Continental Life/Aetna Supplemental
- Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services (DARS)
- Dell Children’s
- Envolve
- Government Employees Health Association (GEHA)
- Good Samaritan
- Humana (most commercial plans)
- Humana Medicare
- Humana Wellmed
- Medical Assistance Program (MAP)
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Medicare Railroad
- Mutual of Omaha
- Oscar
- Peoples Community Clinic
- Scott and White
- Scott and White Senior Care
- Superior Star Plan
- Superior Foster Care Plan
- Temple VA
- Volunteer Health Clinic
- Tricare For Life
- Tricare Prime
- TriWest
- United Healthcare (most commercial plans)
- United Healthcare Medicare Solutions
- United Healthcare Shared Services/GEHA
- United Healthcare Wellmed
- UMR
- USAA LIFE
- Wellcare Connected Senior Care
While this list represents our most commonly seen insurance plans, there may be others in our network that are not listed. If you do not see your insurance listed please contact us to verify coverage. You can reach one of our dedicated billing specialists via the chat feature on our website, or by calling (512) 380-7993.
