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Physicians’ Medicare payment data put costly eye treatments under the microscope

Spritzing perfume is how Judy Johnson realized her eyesight had gone bad. At one point, diabetes had worsened her vision so much that the 69-year-old Lansing, Kan., resident had to squirt out a puff of her favorite scent just to find the opening in the mister. But last week, Johnson said, “I looked at it this morning, and I could see the hole.” Johnson was at the University of Kansas Eye Clinic office in Prairie Village for a follow-up appointment with her ophthalmologist, retina specialist Ajay Singh. He had injected her left eye the day before with a drug called Lucentis, one of 60 shots she has received in both eyes to combat macular edema…Read More

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