Impact of Fellowship Training on Practice Patterns of Glaucoma Surgeons Treating Medicare fee-for-service Beneficiaries.

Surgeons without fellowship training can treat a similar volume of glaucoma patients as those with fellowship training. However, based on surgical procedures employed, their practices are skewed towards mild and moderate glaucoma and they are more limited in their breadth of procedures. In addition, ischemic heart disease was prevalent in the glaucoma patient population.