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Prescribing Patterns and Costs Associated with Postoperative Eye Drop Use in Medicare Beneficiaries Undergoing Cataract Surgery.
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The cost to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for eye drops prescribed for postoperative use after cataract surgery in 2016 was approximately $170 million and substantial opportunity exists to improve the value of care delivered to Medicare beneficiaries.About:
This article is published in Ophthalmology.The article was published on 2020-05-01. It has received 19 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cataract surgery & Medicare Part D.read more
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Health care spending in the United States and other high-income countries
TL;DR: For example, this article found that there is little evidence that efforts to reform US health care delivery have had a meaningful influence on controlling health care spending and costs in the United States.
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Dropless cataract surgery: modernizing perioperative medical therapy to improve outcomes and patient satisfaction.
Kerry K Assil,Michael D Greenwood,Andrea Gibson,Srilatha Vantipalli,Jamie Lynne Metzinger,Michael H Goldstein +5 more
TL;DR: The basis for dropless cataract surgery is described and sustained-release dexamethasone coupled with intracameral antibiotics at the time of phacoemulsification can provide antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory prophylaxis without the need for topical eye drop medications.
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Same-Day versus Next-Day Dexamethasone Intracanalicular Insert Administration for Inflammation and Pain Control Following Cataract Surgery: A Retrospective Analysis
TL;DR: Similar rates of inflammation and pain resolution after phacoemulsification were achieved with the dexamethasone intracanalicular insert placed either immediately postoperative or the next day, expanding options for insert use to offer surgeons and patients greater flexibility in developing perioperative pain and inflammation control strategies.
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Trends in Outpatient Prescribing Patterns for Ocular Topical Anti-Infectives in Six Major Areas of China, 2013-2019.
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors carried out a prescription-based, cross-sectional study using the database of Hospital Prescription Analysis Projection of China, and aimed to analyze the trend in the use of ocular topical anti-infectives for outpatients of the ophthalmology department from 2013 to 2019.
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Real-world evaluation of postoperative in-office Dexamethasone intracanalicular insert administration for control of postoperative inflammation following cataract surgery
TL;DR: Real-world experience with the dexamethasone intracanalicular insert placed in-office on the first postoperative day following cataract surgery is consistent with findings from previous clinical trials and demonstrated that the therapy safely and effectively controlled postoperative inflammation in combination with topical NSAID therapy.
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Health Care Spending in the United States and Other High-Income Countries
TL;DR: The United States spent approximately twice as much as other high-income countries on medical care, yet utilization rates in the United States were largely similar to those in other nations, and prices of labor and goods, including pharmaceuticals, and administrative costs appeared to be the major drivers of the difference in overall cost.
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Prophylaxis of postoperative endophthalmitis following cataract surgery: Results of the ESCRS multicenter study and identification of risk factors
TL;DR: Use of intracameral cefuroxime at the end of surgery reduced the occurrence of postoperative endophthalmitis, and there was evidence that men were more predisposed to infection.
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Pharmaceutical industry-sponsored meals and physician prescribing patterns for medicare beneficiaries
Colette DeJong,Thomas Aguilar,Chien-Wen Tseng,Grace A. Lin,W. John Boscardin,R. Adams Dudley +5 more
TL;DR: To study the association between physicians' receipt of industry-sponsored meals, which account for roughly 80% of the total number of industry payments, and rates of prescribing the promoted drug to Medicare beneficiaries, industry payment data and Medicare prescribing records recently became publicly available.
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Cataract in the Adult Eye Preferred Practice Pattern
Randall J. Olson,Rosa Braga-Mele,Sherleen H. Chen,Kevin M. Miller,Roberto Pineda,James P. Tweeten,David C. Musch +6 more
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Factors Associated With Increases in US Health Care Spending, 1996-2013
Joseph L Dieleman,Ellen Squires,Anthony L. Bui,Madeline Campbell,Abigail Chapin,Hannah Hamavid,Cody Horst,Zhiyin Li,Taylor Matyasz,Alex Reynolds,Nafis Sadat,Matthew T. Schneider,Christopher J L Murray +12 more
TL;DR: Increases in US health care spending from 1996 through 2013 were largely related to increases in health care service price and intensity but were also positively associated with population growth and aging and negatively associated with disease prevalence or incidence.