The consultation fee will be bulk billed to Medicare if your eyes are examined by an optometrist. Click here for the amounts you have to pay for glasses and contact lenses through the Victorian Eyecare Service. The limitations Benefits under this scheme are limited to either one pair of reading glasses and one pair of distance glasses or one pair of bifocal glasses. Glasses with trifocal, progressive power or photochromic lenses are not available through the Victorian Eyecare Service. Benefits are available only if glasses or a change of glasses is clinically necessary.
Benefits are normally available only once every two years.
If you live in country Victoria you can have your eyes examined and obtain glasses from one of a network of optometrists who participate in the Victorian Eyecare Service. There is at least one participating optometrist in almost every Victorian country city . Click here for a list of towns and practitioners . Alternatively you can have your glasses prescribed at the country address of one of a panel of the ophthalmologists participating in the scheme and then have the glasses dispensed by one of the participating optometrists. A booklet listing the participating practitioners is sent to you when we write acknowledging your application.