You may also be wondering if your private medical insurance will cover the cost of vision correction. If you are having cataract surgery, that is covered by insurance. However, the amount covered in terms of treatment cost is on a patient-by-patient basis dependent on your individual policy. If you are choosing to have elective surgery (i.e. not medically required), for example RLE, this would not be covered by private medical insurance. Yet if you have a cataract and also want to be free of glasses (as with the RLE procedure), the cataract element would be covered and you would only have to pay separately for your enhanced lenses. For example, to upgrade from regular cataract surgery to an RLE ‘package’ is an additional £1,495 per eye – this would cover follow-ups for a year and enhancement in that time frame if required.