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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Ophthalmol. 2017 Dec 7;185:115–122. doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2017.09.027

Table 1.

Medicare beneficiary copay spending for anti-VEGF therapy on fixed- or personalized-injection schedules

Drug ranibizumab bevacizumab aflibercept
Number of patients 995,396 2,020,091 446,915
Average number of annual injections on personalized-injection schedule 5.6 6.7 4.7
Drug copay cost $288 $9 $242
OCT imaging copay cost $6 $6 $6
Injection copay cost $20 $20 $20
Fixed-injection schedule – annual patient copay $3,693 $342 $1,568
Personalized-injection schedule – annual patient copay $1,776 $247 $1,262
Annual patient savings $1,918 $94 $306
Total cohort savings $1,908,804,551 $190,892,790 $136,910,501
Total injections avoided 6,370,534 10,706,482 580,990