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AAO Response to NYTimes Article: Eye Doctors Say Their Profits Are Smaller Than Data Makes Them Look

Although consumers and health experts will be poring over the newly released Medicare data for months, maybe years to come, one startling piece of information has already emerged, demonstrating some of the complexity inherent in the long-fought-over information on 880,000 health care providers across the country.

More than any other specialists, ophthalmologists — not cardiologists, cancer doctors or orthopedic surgeons — were the biggest recipients of Medicare money in 2012…read more

Read the American Academy of Ophthalmology response to this article.