Refractive Surgery News

Insurance Companies Drop Lasik Chain After Action News Investigation

TAMPA - Tens of thousands of people in the Bay area went to the Lasik Vision Institute because their insurance companies offered a special deal on Lasik eye surgery. Now, those companies are taking action to protect their customers. When Erica Patterson had Lasik surgery at the Lasik Vision Institute, she thought she was getting a great deal. "I thought it was a great benefit thinking that I lucked out with this great insurance company and that I was...
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Lasik Surgeon Says People Who Don't Have LASIK Save Themselves "A Lot of Grief"

Ultimately, Boston doctors may simply reflect the conservative sensibility of their patients. For instance, Boston consistently had among the lowest numbers of volunteers willing to undergo tests of vision correction surgery in the late 1980s and early '90s, recalled Dr. Roger Steinert of Harvard Medical School, who pioneered the highly popular Lasik technique locally. "The patients who would come in for it had to have some willingness to take risks and it has absolutely been my consistent impression that people...
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Dr. Anita Nevyas Target of FDA Criminal Complaint

I now call for an investigation by the Office of Criminal Investigation, for action which would: 1) Terminate all IDEs and stop Nevyas from performing LASIK. 2) Fine and otherwise sanction Nevyas for past improprieties. It is my sincere belief that only the FDA, or an equivalent governmental agency with power to investigate criminal behavior can properly evaluate and understand what these improprieties are. The civil justice system is not adequate to the task.
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Clinic Sued in Failure to Pay

By Catherine Holahan and Kibret Markos BERGENFIELD - Dr. Joseph Dello Russo, a high-profile eye surgeon, has made millions performing laser eye surgery at his Bergenfield and Manhattan offices. So it was an unusual sight when officers from the Bergen County Sheriff's Department came to Dello Russo's New Jersey Eye Center on Monday to tag nearly three-quarters of a million dollars in equipment for repossession. Dello Russo failed to make timely payments on $737,923 worth of medical equipment leased...
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