Patient Forms & What to Expect

If this is your first visit, completing your forms in advance saves time at check-in. Choose either:

Option 1: Download, print, and complete the forms. Bring them in on the day of your exam.

Option 2: Complete the forms online by clicking the button provided below.

Confidential Communication Authorization Form

HIPAA prevents us from sharing your medical or billing information with anyone — including a spouse, parent, or adult child — without your written consent. If you'd like us to be able to speak with someone on your behalf, complete this form. It also lets you tell us how you prefer to be contacted: cell, home phone, text, or voicemail.

What to Bring

• Photo ID

• Your vision insurance card

• Your medical insurance card

• Any glasses you currently wear, or have worn recently

• Your contact lens boxes or a photo of the packaging, if you wear lenses

• A list of your current medications

• Anything that's changed with your health or your vision since your last visit

• Your completed welcome forms, if you printed them

• Any questions you want to ask — write them down, they're easy to forget in the chair

We ask for both insurance cards because some of what we do is billed to medical insurance rather than vision. More on our Insurance & Payment page.

If you wear contact lenses, please come in wearing them or bring them in a case.

What to Expect

Plan on about an hour, and arrive ten minutes early if you haven't sent your forms ahead.

Pre-testing. An optometric assistant will check your peripheral vision, measure your eye pressure, and take an Optos retinal image (a 200−degree photograph of the back of your eye).

With your optometrist. We'll determine your glasses prescription and test how your eyes are working, then examine the front and back of your eyes under the microscope.

Reviewing everything together.Your doctor will go through the findings with you, show you your Optos images on screen, and make recommendations for your glasses and your eye health. You'll leave with any prescriptions you need: glasses, contact lenses, or medical.

Additional testing, if you need it. If you have diabetes, glaucoma, macular degeneration, keratoconus, or another condition we're following, you may need dilation or more specialized imaging. That can happen the same day or at a follow-up visit, whichever works better for you.

The optical. When you're finished, our opticians can help you find frames and will go through your insurance benefits so you get the most out of your coverage. There's no obligation. Plenty of patients take their prescription and come back later.

Will I need dilation drops?
Usually not. Our Optos imaging gives us a wide view of your retina without drops, which means most patients can drive themselves home and get back to their day.

Some situations still call for dilation: certain medical conditions like diabetes, a new symptom, or a closer look at something we've found. If we dilate you, your vision will be blurry up close and light-sensitive for several hours, so bring sunglasses and consider arranging a ride.

Languages

Our staff speaks English and Spanish