- Published: 07 June 2023

You’ve been diagnosed with a cataract and you’ve been told you should have cataract surgery. The surgeon is also telling you that you should consider paying out-of-pocket for certain features.
Where did this come from? Why should you have to pay out-of-pocket for cataract surgery? Shouldn’t your health insurance just cover it?
In trying to answer these questions, you will first need a little history of both cataract and refractive surgery, which corrects errors of refraction such as...
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