Historical underfunding of cataract surgery in Brazil: Impact of a state-level financial incentive on the Public Health System and implications for private health insurance

Felipe Augusto Casseb dos Santos¹; João Victor Tenório Lossio de Macedo¹; Daniel Haruo Ishigai¹; Bernardo Kaplan Moscovici^2,3; Ricardo Menon Nosé¹

DOI: 10.5935/0004-2749.2026-0090

1. Department of Ophthalmology, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2. Department of Ophthalmology, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
3. Department of Ophthalmology, Laser Vision Hospital, Santos, SP, Brazil

Corresponding author

Felipe Augusto Casseb dos Santos
E-mail: [email protected]

Funding: This study received no specific financial support.

Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest: The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest.

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Santos FAC, Macedo JVTL, Ishigai DH, Moscovici^{2 BK, 3} , Nosé RM. Historical underfunding of cataract surgery in Brazil: Impact of a state-level financial incentive on the Public Health System and implications for private health insurance. Arq. Bras. Oftalmol. 2026;89(4):. 10.5935/0004-2749.2026-0090

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