AC Lens Introduces Partner-Branded Online Contact Lens Platform & Vision Benefit Assignment
AC Lens, the largest privately held online contact lens seller in the United States, announces the successful launch of its branded retail and assignment of vision benefits service. This exciting new service enables a traditional contact lens retailer, or vision benefit provider to offer their patients the ability to purchase contact lenses online through a custom-branded website and apply their available vision benefits seamlessly. AC Lens has already enrolled a major US vision benefits program and has been operating this program, which is the first of its kind, with great success since January 1, 2005.
(PRWEB) March 4, 2005 -- AC Lens, the largest privately held online contact
lens seller in the United States, announces the successful launch of its branded
retail and assignment of vision benefits service. This exciting new service
enables a traditional contact lens retailer, or vision benefit provider to offer
their patients the ability to purchase contact lenses online through a
custom-branded website and apply their available vision benefits seamlessly. AC
Lens has already enrolled a major US vision benefits program and has been
operating this program, which is the first of its kind, with great success since
January 1, 2005.
AC Lens had already
established itself as a leading online contact lens retailer focusing on the
customer experience and low prices. AC Lens has been selling contact lenses
online since 1996. “We’ve developed technology in-house that gives us the
exclusive ability to work directly with healthcare providers and practices
wishing to provide the additional benefit of online contact lens purchasing to
their members,” stated AC Lens CEO Dr. Peter Clarkson. “No Internet contact lens
retailer has offered assignment of vision benefits.” A major retailer and
several vision insurers are already successfully utilizing the program, and
early results show that this innovation benefits the consumer and the insurance
provider.
AC Lens now has the ability to build branded websites for
healthcare providers, and include a shopping cart that will deduct the total
benefit amount for the member from the total, and then either prompt for further
payment, or finish the order. The back-end functionality offers a turnkey
solution for partners, and allows customer service representatives to authorize
the benefits, and then finalize the order. Dr. Clarkson added, “This seamless
process provides the best experience for the patient, and the smallest amount of
effort by the provider.”
About AC Lens
AC Lens is an online contact
lens and contact lens accessory retailer and sells brand name contacts, contact
lens solutions, and ocular vitamins, directly to consumers via its website at http://www.aclens.com/.
Operating from a custom-designed call-center and warehouse facility in Hilliard,
Ohio, the company has been selling contact lenses online since 1996 and has
established a reputation as an on-line leader in service, convenience, and
discount prices for consumers. Visit AC Lens on the web at http://www.aclens.com/.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Brian
Frank
Marketing Coordinator
AC Lens
phone: 614-921-2558
fax:
614-921-9866
http://www.aclens.com/
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/3/prweb214271.htm