Vision Insurance – NEW!
All Must Choose a Plan during 2025 Open Enrollment
It will be required that all employees elect a Vision Plan during the annual Open Enrollment period running from October 28, 2024 – November 25, 2024.
Starting in 2025, WSU employees have three standalone vision plans to choose from: Davis Vision, EyeMed Vision and MetLife Vision.
If employees do not elect a plan during Open Enrollment, or as a new employee, they will be enrolled in the MetLife Vision plan.
Vision benefits through 2024 have been part of the medical plans.
WSU pays the full premium for employees and enrolled dependents.
Covered vision benefits
- A yearly routine eye exam for members
- Dependents 19 and under receive a pair of glasses (or contacts in lieu of glasses) every year
- $200 every two years to be spent on a pair of glasses (frame and lenses) or contact lenses in lieu of frame and lenses, beginning 2025
- Beginning in 2025, the two-year benefit reset occurs in numerically-odd years (2025, 2027, 2029, etc.)
Providers for the vision benefits
The three plans have contracted net-work providers, with a higher level of coverage. In addition to individually contract in-network providers, the following locations are covered:
Davis Vision: In-Network Providers and America’s Best, Costco Optical, Sam’s Club, Visionworks, and Walmart
EyeMed Vision: In-Network Providers and LensCrafters, Pearle Vision, and Target Optical, and many others
MetLife Vision: In-Network Providers and America’s Best, Costco Optical, Pearle Vision, Sams Club, Visionworks, and Walmart
Out-of-network providers will be covered as well at a reduce level of benefit.
Vision services if medically related
If the service is not related to routine eye exams, glasses/contacts, they will continue to be covered as a medical expense under the Medical plan. Such eye-related conditions include: Treatment of infection and injury to the eye; all eye surgeries; monitoring and treatment of diseases such as Glaucoma, Cataracts, Diabetic retinopathy.
Vision plan comparison chart
2024 SEBB Vision Benefits At-A-Glance (to be updated with 2025 PEBB information)
Contact information
Delta Vision by MetLife: 1-877-377-9353, Davis Vision for PEBB employees (link is pending)
EyeMed Vision Care: 1-800-699-0993, EyeMed Vision Care for PEBB employees (link is pending)
MetLife Vision: 1-855-638-3931, MetLife Vision for PEBB employees (link is pending)
Additional Resources
- PEBB Website (pending)
- 2025 PEBB Vision Benefits At-A-Glance (pending)