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Cataract Surgery is an Evolution in Efficiency
Has technology made cataract surgery that much more efficient? I was just going over ambulatory surgery trends and found the professional payment for cataract surgery has dropped over 14% (CPT 66984) in the last two years, 45% since 1996. At the same time, the technical payment (APC 0246) rose almost 10%. This is a common trend, especially when a costly technology is involved. One parallel example is CT, a technology that performs approximately 69 million scans yearly. Over the last two years, the professional payment has dropped almost 30%. Read More »