It also runs an Eye Project with a jeep-equipped outreach team to bring patients for operations such as cataract removal.

As a result, this tricky surgery without stitches is performed in only about 30 percent of cataract removals.

Or it refuses to cover cataract removal in more than one eye unless the patient is fairly young and needs both eyes for work.

Each year, Medicare pays for two million cataract removals, the most common type of surgery for elderly people in America.

Patients may experience more pain, a longer recovery period, and less improvement in visual acuity than a patient with an uncomplicated cataract removal.

The list runs from a 30-minute cataract removal to a one-hour appendectomy to a six-hour lung transplant.

Presbyterian Medical Center offers a wide range of services from cataract removal to virtual colonoscopies.

Following cataract removal, it used to be common for patients to require thick pebble glasses to be able to see.

The specular microscope is now used by ophthalmologists throughout the world in a variety of eye procedures, like cataract removal and Lasik surgery.

When he couldn't get sufficient health insurance coverage for cataract removal, he moved back to the United States to have the operation, which was not successful.