As a longtime patient, I don't recommend this office.
I came into the office for my vision check up and received an updated prescription ("2023 prescription"). I decided to update my sunglasses with the 2023 prescription. This time, I decided to try polarized lenses. The polarization cost extra. We sent the order that day.
When I came in to pick up the sunglasses, I felt dizzy and disoriented as soon as I put the sunglasses on. The optical person said I should just see Dr. Chan again. Dr. Chan said she thought the problem may be the prescription. She and the optical person asked that I try out the sunglasses for a week. Mind you, they have a 90 day guarantee, so now we are 3 weeks into those 90 days. In any event, Dr. Chan said that if I tried the 2023 prescription and it did not work out, maybe we need to look into going back to the old 2022 prescription. She wrote that down in her notes.
I tried the sunglasses for a week. Still did not work out. The only big change was the polarized lenses. I asked an optician friend about this, he confirmed polarized lenses sometimes makes some people feel dizzy. I then spoke to someone from Eye Treatment Center who acted like I was crazy and said definitively that the polarization would not cause that. I asked her what it could be if not the polarization. She did not know. I asked if we could take off the polarization but leave everything else the same, and asked if they could adjust the price since I paid for polarized but wouldn't get polarized. She looked at me like I was crazy and said there would be no price adjustment even though I wouldn't be getting polarized lenses. I left the office, called back, and spoke to optical manager Carol and I told her I wanted to remove the polarization. Carol said OK and said there normally wouldn't be a price adjustment but ultimately she would make a price adjustment. (I have since spoken to my insurance company who has confirmed there should be a price adjustment)
I then came in and handed the sunglasses to Carol and asked her if all they were going to do was remove the polarization, and everything else would be the same. She confirmed. I left. I was looking forward to getting the exact same sunglasses but without the polarization.
A couple of weeks later I came in for the redone sunglasses. I tried them on and I no longer felt dizzy, but they were blurry. Valerie said she was not sure why. She asked that I keep trying them out. Again, eating into the 90 days.
After taking the sunglasses, since Carol wasn't there, I called her and told her I took the sunglasses, I was hoping they'd work out, and asked when I'd get the price adjustment to remove the polarization fee. She said she would refund the fee and she did. I continued to try the sunglasses, they were still blurry, and Carol couldn't figure out why. Then their office closed for the holidays. After the holidays, Carol asked that I keep trying the sunglasses because she did not know what else to tell me, we already redid the sunglasses once, we're only allowed "one redo," and another one would cost me $105.
Relying on Carol, I kept trying out the sunglasses. Finally, I came into the office before the 90 days was up. Carol finally told me that when she sent in the sunglasses to remove the polarization, she filled the sunglasses with the 2022 prescription, not the 2023 prescription. But I was never told this before the sunglasses were sent out. At that point, Carol asked me to close one eye with the sunglasses on to see if that eye was clear, then alternate eyes. I did that and told her that my left eye was blurry when looking out through the sunglasses. I asked if that was how it was supposed to be. She said no, they were both supposed to be clear if the prescription was accurate. Carol confirmed that when the sunglasses were first made with the polarization, they were made with the 2023 prescription. But when the polarization was removed, they were made with the 2022 prescription. Carol said this was done because of Dr. Chan's notes. Apparently, after I dropped off the sunglasses to Carol to remove the polarization, someone looked at the chart and misunderstood what was written and changed the order to remove the polarization AND to change the prescription to the 2022 prescription, which was not what I ordered. There was a mistake made by their office and we were now outside of the 90 days and the one redo was used up because their office used the wrong prescription. Carol confirmed that I never had a chance to try the non-polarized sunglasses with the 2023 prescription as I asked, but she refused to make it right. She claims Dr. Chan and Dr. Sasaki also refused.
It has now been months and their office refuses to take any responsibility for their mistake. I have gotten the insurance company VSP involved, and VSP has told me that I am 100% right and they are 100% wrong. As a longtime patient of several years, it should not have gotten to this point. read more