{"id":20241,"date":"2022-09-19T05:45:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T09:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20241"},"modified":"2022-09-19T05:45:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T09:45:25","slug":"private-equity-sees-the-billions-in-eye-care-as-firms-target-high-profit-procedures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20241","title":{"rendered":"Private Equity Sees the Billions in Eye Care as Firms Target High-Profit Procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Lauren Weber for Kaiser Health News) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ST. LOUIS \u2014 Christina Green hoped cataract surgery would clear up her cloudy vision, which had worsened after she took a drug to fight her breast cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the former English professor said her 2019 surgery with Ophthalmology Consultants didn\u2019t get her to 20\/20 vision or fix her astigmatism \u2014 despite a $3,000 out-of-pocket charge for the astigmatism surgical upgrade. Green, 69, said she ended up feeling more like a dollar sign to the practice than a patient.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/private-equity-ophthalmology-eye-care-high-profit-procedures\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/private-equity-ophthalmology-eye-care-high-profit-procedures\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a non profit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"104\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Lauren Weber for Kaiser Health News) ST. LOUIS \u2014 Christina Green hoped cataract surgery would clear up her cloudy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12,21],"tags":[111,112,110],"class_list":["post-20241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-finance","tag-eye-care","tag-ophthalmology","tag-private-equity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20242,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20241\/revisions\/20242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}