Insurance
These are the only two vision plans we accept.
What are NVA and Premier through WellCare?
The first thing you should do prior to inserting or removing contact lenses.
What is washing your hands?
Tonometry is how intraocular pressure is measured. The doctor will use either Goldmann Applanation Tonometry or Contour Applanation Tonometry. The letters NCT stand for this device's name.
What is Non-contact Tonometry?
This is something that is in the eye that shouldn't be there.
What is a foreign body?
Calling all cats! Wild salmon is great for your eyes, and for dinner. Name all the staff's cats.
Who are Max, Keats, Mona, Tzatziki, Mulder, Fennec, Kari, and Nala?
Until 2018, Medicare IDs were the same as this.
What is the patient's social security number?
Aside from manufacturer, lens brand, and material, theses 2 parameters are found on every soft contact lens box.
What are base curve (BC) and diameter (diam)?
The Optos images this structure. Hint: the retina is part of this greater structure.
What is the fundus? (the retina, optic disk, and retinal blood vessels)
This is the ocular manifestation of diabetes mellitus.
What is diabetic retinopathy?
Wilbur is a mix of many breeds but these two are the main ones, per his DNA testing.
American Staffordshire Terrier (pit bull) and Labrador Retriever.
A MaineCare ID will always end in one of these two letters.
What is A or T?
The amount of boxes that a patient would have to purchase in order to receive a 10% discount.
What are twelve 30 packs (or 24 for OU) or four 90 packs (or 8 for OU)?
The visual component being tested with either the Frequency Doubling Technology Device or the Octopus.
What is a patient's peripheral vision?
This is an eye disease that eventually leads to blindness, but typically makes a person go blind from the periphery inwards.
What is glaucoma?
This makes Advanced Clinical Eye Care of Southern Maine unique.
Who are the amazing staff?
The term for when you have primary insurance, with MaineCare as secondary.
What is dual enrollment?
A patient should do this prior to placing a soft contact lens that they just removed from their eye prior to placing it into their clean case with fresh multipurpose solution.
What is rub the lens back and forth (no circles) with a few drops of MPS for 3-4 strokes?
The full name of the instrument used to look through the layers of the retina.
What is the Optical Coherence Tomographer? (Zeiss Cirrus Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomographer)
This is why "flashes and floaters" are a same-day appointment.
What is risk of permanent vision loss due to retinal detachment?
This is one of Dr. Olmes' optometric dreams.
What is to create a vision therapy/sports vision practice?
The type of insurance plan that requires a referral in order to be billed.
What is an HMO?
The question you should ask every contact lens wearer that calls with urgent or emergent concerns.
Have you been sleeping in your contact lenses recently?
A patient who can see shapes within the random dot patterns during stereo testing is said to have this kind of stereopsis.
What is bifoveal or global steropsis?
This condition causes inflammation inside the eye and can be described as anterior, intermediate, retinitis, chorioretinitis, or pan. It can be caused by infections like TB and syphilis, by auto-immune conditions like ankylosing spondylitis or Crohn's, or it can be idiopathic.
What is uveitis?
This how many years Dr. Olmes has been a licensed optometrist.
What are 9 years?