{
  "id": 1901696,
  "title": "Medicare’s Paying Less for Cataract Surgery. Eye Doctors Are Turning to Lucrative Lasers.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/medicares-paying-less-for-cataract-surgery-eye-doctors-are-turning-to",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-19T09:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "KFF Health News",
    "slug": "kff-health-news",
    "url": "https://kffhealthnews.org/insurance/medicare-cataract-surgery-scalpel-laser-ophthalmology-iol-lenses/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "More cataract patients, wanting not only restored but improved vision, are paying extra for their doctors to use a laser when a scalpel would do.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}