Optician vs licensed dispensing optician

Differences between optician and licensed dispensing optician duties and responsibilities

Optician example responsibilities.

• Manage appointments and appointment reminders, checking in/out patients, check insurance eligibility.
• Maintain coating quality using adhesion testing and spectrophotometers, and manage coating hues and reflectance adjustments.
• Show manual dexterity, hand eye coordination and precision to work with different types of lenses and tools.
• Assist patients with frame selections and lenses that are best suit for their lifestyle, Rx and price needs.
• Produce forms for the authorization of insurance benefits and eligibility for incoming patients.
• Prepare work orders and instructions for fabricating patients prescriptions and verify Rx are finished to specifications.
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Licensed dispensing optician example responsibilities.

• File managed care claims including Medicare, Davis, eyem and VSP.
• Inventory control over stock single vision lenses and ordering of RX from outside labs.
• Help patients receive maximum benefit from their insurance coverage.
• Educate patients on optical health and provide informative literature when need.
• Work with multiple optometrists to solve patient issues including inaccurate optical measurements, lens adaptations, and overall patient satisfaction.
• File insurance for orders including medicare and medicaid.