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CMS ruling, new products make 2005 another banner year for cataract surgery advances
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The year in review
Medicare patients have option to choose presbyopia-correcting lenses, experts note
Reviewed by I. Howard Fine, MD, Randall J. Olson, MD, and Robert H. Osher, MD
Advances in techniques and technology for cataract surgery and IOL implantation have continued through the past year. Those innovations combined with changes in reimbursement have improved the practice setting, contributed to an overall air of increased optimism among ophthalmologists, and have made the contemporary era of cataract surgery more of a golden age than ever before, said I. Howard Fine, MD, reflecting on ...
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