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What EXACTLY is a Lens Fitting Fee?

Friday, February 19th, 2010

This is an opinion piece, make up your own mind about this issue. This article is meant only to have you question the structure and validity of the optometrist’s industry-wide practice of charging a lens fitting fee to customers who do not purchase in-house frames.

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Here’s a question that harks back to an article I wrote some months ago titled The True Cost of Total Eyecare’s $40 Penalty Fee (REDUX) in which I questioned the optometrist industry’s lens fitting fee for filling prescriptions in glasses not purchased in-store.

My question at the time was where does this lens fitting fee come from? In a comment below the original article. The answer provided was:

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