The National ROI of Cataract Surgery: 4567%!!!!

Take the number of cataract surgeries performed in a single year. Spread out the financial results over 13. What do you get? More than $123.4 billion in savings and a societal 4567 percent return on investment, according to a cost-utility study published by Ophthalmology. Patients realize 39.4% of the savings and Medicare another 29.5%. Other gains included employment/productivity (20.6 percent), Medicaid (2.7 percent) and other insurers (7.8 percent). In other words, for each cataract surgery on a single eye, which costs an average of $2653, the savings will amount to $121,198. Read more.