Reoperation Rates and Disease Costs for Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Patients in the United States Treated with Incisional Glaucoma Surgery.

Purpose: To evaluate the claims-based 5-year economic and reintervention burden for patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) after incisional glaucoma surgery in the United States.

Design: Retrospective Medicare claims analysis.

Participants: One thousand nine hundred forty-five Medicare fee-for-service patients with POAG treated with trabeculectomy, tube shunt, or EX-PRESS shunt procedures from 2010 through 2011.