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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg. 2012 Jul-Aug;28(4):289–293. doi: 10.1097/IOP.0b013e31825ca599

Table 3.

Annual Medicare payment for punctal plug insertion and Cyclosporine A (Restasis®, Allergan, Irvine, CA) sales

Year Medicare payment for CPT 68761a Restasis® sales (106 dollars)a, 23
1994 b c
1995 b c
1996 b c
1997 b c
1998 112.36 c
1999 138.00 c
2000 219.68 c
2001 295.81 c
2002 194.28 c
2003 190.23 44.81
2004 206.44 113.77
2005 154.24 210.00
2006 141.89 286.41
2007 133.80 354.84
2008 132.92 440.00
2009 134.22 522.90
a

in 2009 real dollars

b

not available

c

Restasis® introduced April 2003