Which ophthalmic services are covered and not covered?

The following products and services are free of charge if they are provided by a participating physician as part of a covered service:

• Eye drops
• Retinophotography
• Cataract extraction
• Optical coherence tomography to treat certain pathologies (age-related macular degeneration, macular edema, diabetic macular edema, retinopathy of prematurity, malignant myopia, neovascular glaucoma, neovascular diabetic retinopathy, for example)

• Soft contact lenses (single-piece, foldable, monofocal aspheric intraocular lenses) used to treat cataracts

The following costs may be billed to you, as they are carried out as part of a non-covered service:

• Echography of the eye performed in a clinic by a physician other than a radiologist participating in the public plan
• Toric contact lenses or speciality lenses