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Golden Rule Insurance Company Vision Insurance Review


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UnitedHealthcare is an American healthcare company based in Minnesota and is under the parent company of UnitedHealth Group. Also within the family of companies is Golden Rule Insurance Company, which underwrites vision insurance, along with other individual, group, and family healthcare plans such as, term life, critical illness, accident, hospitalization, disability, and international travel, short term and dental insurance. Their website also offers a large array of educational tools and resources designed to help policyholders develop and sustain a healthy lifestyle.

UnitedHealthcare, Golden Rule Insurance Company offers a wide selection of health insurance products for individuals and employers. This includes medical, accidental, disability, life, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and vision insurance. Its vision insurance is available either as a supplemental or standalone policy.

Services and Features

Vision insurance from Golden Rule is available either as a standalone plan or as additional rider to an existing dental insurance plan. As a standalone plan, it can be customized, allowing you to select covered items such as glasses, contacts, or both. However, both plans give you access to vision care benefits such as allowances for prescription glasses, routine eye exams, and discounts on other vision services.

Golden Rule vision plans have no waiting periods, offer coverage for all ages, cover out-of-network treatments, and offer big savings through its large, national network of eyewear and vision service providers.

Network providers are categorized into three areas: full service, exam only, and dispense only. Full service providers cover eye examinations and discounted prescription eyewear. Eye exam only is for discounted eye examinations, while dispense only is for discounts on prescription eyewear.

Golden Rule’s vision care plans and pricing vary according to an applicant’s gender, age, location, and smoking habits. If you get a yearly eye examinations from an in-network provider, you only have to pay the copay amount under the vision plan. However, if you get a yearly eye exam from an out-of-network provider, the plan will only pay a flat fee allowance towards the bill and you are responsible to pay the rest. Therefore, the total cost is still less with a vision plan from Golden Rule. Coverage may also include frames, lenses, and contacts.

Covered Items 

Glasses

Contacts

Eye Examinations

LASIK

Allowances

There may be an allowance that can go towards: Single Vision,  Bifocal, Trifocal/Lenticular, Eye Exams, Frames, Non-Selection Contacts

Lens Options

Scratch Resistance

Included

UV Coating

Not Stated

Anti-Glare

Not Stated

Polycarbonate

Not Stated

Tinted/Colored

Not Stated

Types of Vision Plans

Individual

Family Plan

Stand-alone Plans

Preferred Provider Organizations

Employer Provider

Health Maintenance Organizations

Network

Out-of-Network Coverage

Size of Network

Not Stated

Find Doctors Online

Pricing

Plan Name

Plan A

Co-payment – Exam

$10

Co-Payment - Glasses

$10

Premium

Not Stated

Coverage Period

Waiting Time

No Waiting Period

Enrollment

Online Enrollment

Cancellation

Not Stated

Customer Resources

Eye Exam Locations

Not Stated

Online Account Management

Mobile App

Phone

Email

Vision Insurance From Golden Rule Insurance Company

Golden Rule’s vision insurance is available either as a supplement or standalone policy. There are no waiting periods and it is available for all ages. Discounts and savings are not limited to in-network providers but also to non-network eye care specialists.


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Customer Comments & Reviews

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dogjohnnytm
8/16/2023
Dont communicate with providers on address changes takes a month to get a check big runaround plan


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James W
12/4/2020
Horrible Company!! I paid for vision insurance for over 8mths and when I went to use it I found out it had been terminated.... That's great news when you take the morning off from work and you're sitting in the vision center waiting to start and the receptionist comes in and says your policy was terminated over a month ago. I was NEVER called, messaged, or emailed that my policy was going to be terminated!! NEVER AGAIN will I use this company!


martinpaubel
2/4/2020
I cancelled this company they denied claims for me because they go by a company named Spectra they would not issue ID cards and they did not have any coverage except Walmart in my community.


insi10 m
5/8/2019
First, they don't cover progressive lenses in California, period. That's a good way to save money by failing to provide an essential product -- which most other vision care plans do cover. No wonder they make 35.5% profit on premiums compared to claims paid. Second, they have absolutely ZERO providers locally. Their website idiotically thinks Yucaipa is 17.21 miles from here. It's more than 50, of which the first 40 is a winding mountain road. So my search for a vision care provider moves on to elsewhere.



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Freedom to go out-of-network

  • No waiting periods
  • Coverage for people of all ages
  • Must make a 12-month commitment to coverage