Veterans Less Likely to Receive Cataract Surgery Than Medicaid Patients

Medicaid patients 5.5 times more likely to get cataract surgery than VA patients, study finds 03/18/2010.  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 frequency of cataract surgery may be responsive to financial incentives to either or both the medical facility and physicians who perform the procedure. Indiana University School of Medicine via Eurekalert