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Cataract Free America Program Information

Receive cataract care for free or with no out-of-pocket expense. Cataract surgery at no cost to you may be available even if own your home, are employed, have Medicare, or have Medicare plus supplemental insurance.

Eligible medicare patients receive a full eye exam, eyeglass prescription, and needed surgery for catarcts with no out-of-pocket expense.

No cost to you...

...exam, eye prescription, and cataract surgery.

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Select cataract doctors.

Not an insurance plan...

...doctors accept Medicare as payment in full.

Learn how Cataract Free America works.

No extra paperwork or forms.

No forms...

...nothing to join, and no extra paperwork.

Cataract Free America eligibility is simple and easy.

No obligation for future care or surgery.

No obligation...

...to have cataract surgery or any additional care.

Details about Cataract Free America.

Informed cataract decision.

Full cataract care...

...from affiliated Medicare providers.

Details regarding the cataract care you will be offered.

Qualified cataract doctors.

Board certified...

...doctors provide your medical care.

Qualifications are verified for all affiliated cataract doctors.

Cataract Eye Surgery Information

Cataract causes, symptoms, and surgery

Cataracts...

...causes, symptoms, and treatment.

More about cataracts and treatment.

YAG laser is used for secondary cataracts.

Cataracts & lasers...

...laser cataract surgery is provided as required.

More about secondary cataracts and lasers.

No stitches, no needles...

...with today's modern cataract surgery.

More about the cataract surgery process.

Be rid of glasses...

...cataract surgery may eliminate your glasses.

More about glasses after cataract surgery.

Colors commonly are less bright and more yellow or brown a cataract.

Colors...

...become muted and change with cataracts.

More about cataracts and color problems.

Driving with a cataract can be difficult, especially at night.

Night driving...

...can be difficult with cataracts.

More about cataracts and driving problems.

Objects blur out of view with cataracts.

Small objects...

...cataracts make distant objects difficult to see.

More about activities after cataract surgery.

New cataract technology can allow you to see both near and distant without reading glasses.

See near and far...

...without reading glasses after cataract surgery.

More about reading glasses after cataract surgery.

A cataract can reduce contrast sensitivity.

Contrast sensitivity...

...after cataract surgery can be significantly better.

More about cataracts and contrast sensitivity problems.

A cataract can reduce depth perception, especially if the cataract is in only one eye.

Distance perception...

...can be improved with cataract surgery..

More about cataracts and depth perception problems.

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