Medicare patients 5.5 times more likely to get cataract surgery than VA patients, study finds
Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 16:14
in Health & Medicine
Patients seen at private facilities reimbursed by Medicare were more than 550 percent more likely to have routine cataract surgery than those who received their care from the Department of Veterans Affairs, a strong indication that the frequency of cataract surgery may be responsive to financial incentives to either or both the medical facility and the physicians who perform the procedure.