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4.8 (5 reviews)
Closed • 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

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America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses

America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses

1.8(16 reviews)
0.1 mi
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My family and I have gone to Americas for the past 15 years in 3 different cities and for the past…read more8 years we have been going to the Joplin, MO location. We have had excellent friendly care and prices that we could afford. I had an issue with my vision in 2007, got an appointment, not sure I would have gone right away but since I had the eyecare club I knew there would be no charge. Good thing, because Dr. Chronister saw I had a tear in my retina and he and his staff got on the phone to get me to a specialist. That proved to be slightly difficult since it was Christmas time. They did not stop until they got me an appt. because you see, if you don't fix a tear your retina can detach and thats as serious as it gets. I have told this story many many times until December 2012 with praise for this location and its staff. In December 2012, I once again had an issue with my vision that had started a couple weeks prior but was busy and put if off but made an appt. with Americas for Dec 29th Saturday. Once again, Dr. Chronister and his staff saved my eyesight. 1-I wouldn't have bothered during the Christmas season to go but they make it easy with convenient hours and the eyecare club, exams are free for 3 years. 2-I had a detached retina by the time I got there and again, Dr. Chronister and his staff did not stop for 3 hours calling and trying to get me in somewhere because there was no doubt I had to have surgery to repair or lose my eye. 3-They assured me every 15 min or so that it was going to be okay that they were working on getting me taken care of-and during this time they were seeing a heavy load of other patients but still took the time. they had to get me to a specialist/surgeon in Kansas City since there were no available doctors and/or equipment in the joplin area due to not having been replaced since the tornado. Anyway, I am sorry I didn't write this review sooner, have moved to Kansas City for a job, won't hesitate to go to Americas Best here but will probably drive back to Joplin since Dr. Brian Chronister and his staff there are awesome, which means they are professional, knowledgable, friendly, affordable. So give them another chance or visit for the first time and see for yourself. And a big thank you for everything to the Joplin staff.

wrong prescription, lens scratch super easy, bought three pair and none are the same prescription…read more NEVER will I go back. You get what you pay for.

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2.4(10 reviews)
2.4 mi

I went in for my annual eye exam and renewal for my glasses. Everyone was very nice and…read moreprofessional and the doctor was very kind and jovial. Everything was great until I took my prescription across the hall to the optical shop to have my eyeglass prescription filled. The woman in the optical shop was very rude and dismissive. She told me my insurance would only cover $250 for frames and lenses and $150 of that was for the lenses alone. The problem is it left me with $100 for frames and not one of those frames in the optical shop was under $100. I asked her what were the cheapest pairs they had then because I am on a fixed income and had already spent all of my money on bills. She told me to just look around and acted put out. Of course I have low vision, I could not read any of the price tags. The frames I really liked and wanted were over $200 for just the frames. She continued to act put out because I kept asking how much ones I liked cost. (Again I could not see the prices listed on the tags on the earpieces.) I had to get what I could afford and ultimately I felt like the shop was gouging on the price of all of the frames to make a profit off of them because insurance was paying at least $250 maximum. She figured it up with the pair I ultimately picked, but did not really want, just because they were the cheapest pair I could find. She told me I would have to come up with $58 before she could put in an order for the glasses. I have two forms of insurance and usually if you exceed what the primary is willing to pay, the secondary will cover it. She kept telling me she could not do that. I felt like this woman was thinking I was an idiot who didn't know my stuff, and she was treating me accordingly. (My insurance company told me that she could have definitely charged my secondary for the balance over the main insurance allowance.) I left feeling dejected. I talked to a friend who told me "don't worry I'll loan you the money for the glasses." She called them and was told I didn't owe anything because I was fully covered and said to my friend, "I had to refigure it, and it's sometimes more or sometimes less depending on what frame they pick, what extras they want like progressive lenses, etc." And while she told me that when I was there, I sat right there and watched her figure this up and told me I owed $58 which I didn't have right then, and I didn't even have enough money for a down payment so I was again told "well if you come up with the money then call and we'll order your glasses." I called again and asked when they would be ready and was again, treated dismissively and told "we'll call you when they are ready" and acted like she didn't want to talk to me at all. I did tell her at that point if I had known I would not owe anything, I would have picked one of the pairs in the same price range as the pair I ultimately ended up with because I didn't actually like those and was told, "oh well, too late to fix it now I ordered the pair you gave me." Yeah a pair I felt pressured into getting because she didn't take the time to recalculate anything while I was still there and I just picked the cheapest pair I picked up because I didn't want to end up paying too much out of pocket. I had to use a medical ride service to get there, otherwise I would have just taken my prescription and gone elsewhere. It's crazy to me that there are other in network places around I could have used that would have let me get one or two pairs for $20 a pair lenses included, which is why I believe the optical shop part of Regional Eye Clinic is gouging on the cost of frames for its low income customers. I did find out I could have gotten the ones she quoted me as being $250 for the frames alone, ($150 out of pocket) for $15 online. So if I had been evaluating the eye doctor alone, I would have given a 5 Star review, and the optical shop alone it would have gotten 1 Star. I went somewhere in the middle only because the doctor and his office staff were both awesome. The optical shop part of it treated me like I was stupid and was very unprofessional and rude, both in person and on the phone. And now I have to deal with her again when I finally get my glasses and a "don't call us we'll call you" type of statement.

employee double charge my credit card with the same charge. I had a huge hassle with them to get it…read morecorrected! Office staff was rude and acted like I was lucky they would let me do business there?

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