WARNING! I chose Highline as my new eye dr based on their awesome ratings online, which are very undeserved and misleading.
In an attempt to get contact lenses for the first time in my life, at Highline, I was met with nothing but a huge waste of time, waste of money, and a waste of my eye insurance.
My Experience w/ Highline Vision Center in Aurora:
More often than not they didn't have contact lens trials already in the office that were the correct prescription for me. I tried several different contacts, in the couple of months of working with them on trying to find contacts that would work properly for me. With each trial they wanted to order me a stronger prescription. It took them, on average, two weeks, sometimes more and rarely less, each time I was supposed to try a new trial of contacts, for them to actually get the contacts ordered and delivered to the office so that I could pick them up and try them out. Every contact lens trial that I waited several weeks for turned out very blurry and uncomfortable.
Outrageously terrible communication from the staff to the patients, as well as between the staff members themselves.
On several occasions they never returned my calls when I would leave a voice message because they couldn't answer the phone at the time that I had called. They never called me back as promised once I finally got a hold of someone. "Let me ask Dr So-and-So and I'll call you right back." was the typical response. On way too many occasions, at least half a dozen, I waited over a week or more for a return phone call with no avail. I was then forced to call them, and every time they would still not have the sought after information available.
Rarely did I actually receive a phone call to notify me that my contact lens trials were delivered to the office and ready to pick up, as they told me they would do. After a couple of weeks I would end up calling them only to find out that the contacts were actually there waiting for me. One time when I called to check if my trials had been delivered yet I was told by one woman that they weren't in yet, but then told by someone different that they actually were in and ready for pick up.
On many occasions I would be told one thing by one staff member, and later told something completely different, even contradictory, regarding the same matter by a different staff member.
They would set an appointment with me over the phone to only call me back ten minutes later to cancel and reschedule for several weeks further out. I would also show up at the office for a pre-scheduled appointment only for them to cancel my appointment the moment I walked in the door.
One of the last contact lens trials I tried actually worked pretty well for me but when I was informed of the ridiculous price of those particular contacts, I told one of the receptionist girls and Brenda, the contact lens "specialist", that they were way out of my price range and that I'd like to continue trying to find cheaper contact lenses that will work for me.
I was then bombarded with emails from them that were trying to get me to order those lenses that I had told Highline that I couldn't afford.
Upon reaching out to Brenda to clear up whatever confusion there was about this she informed me that my time limit to try to find contact lenses had expired, and if I wanted to continue my search further then I would have to pay all over again. I want to be clear that I was never informed until then of such a timeline.
Dr Jeri, during my annual eye exam, attempted to convince me to get an unnecessary procedure done that was not covered by my insurance, I would have had to pay out of pocket for it, and that I absolutely did not need. When I declined to submit to having the unnecessary procedure done she repeatedly pressured me to do it during my appointment. She continued to hound me about it, acting to be caring, but at the same time treating me as if I was incompetent to manage my own healthcare. After several failed nagging attempts Dr Jeri finally complied with my declining, only when I promised to give her the contact info of my old eye dr to have my medical records forwarded to Highline to prove I didn't need the procedure and that I also be required to sign a waiver releasing Highline of any responsibility for my eye health.
In all my dealings with the staff at Highline Vision Center I was originally convinced that they beyond severely lacked customer service skills, but now I'm concluding that it was nothing more than greed.
All of the failed communication attempts, or lack there of. All the weeks spent in waiting for trials to come in and never being notified when they were. All the phone calls never returned. All the misinformation. All the confusion was just an attempt to buy time until they could get more money out of me and/or my insurance company.
There are only two possible conclusions. Either they are grossly incompetent, or they are greedy beyond measure. read more