NEVVI Medicare utilization intelligence

The 3rd of 4 published Eye families by billed volume.

Medicare reported an estimated 516,000 Fluid Flow and Drainage of Eye (Any Method) services in the United States in 2024

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Medicare Fluid Flow and Drainage of Eye (Any Method) services · fee-for-service record vs MA-adjusted total · 2015–2024
2015201620172018201920202021202220232024260,000516,000Fee-for-service recordMA-adjusted total (est.)
Two series: the measured fee-for-service record and the MA-adjusted estimated total (FFS × total÷FFS enrollment). Their gap is Medicare Advantage's share, which the public file does not itemize by procedure. A services-volume count — billed services, not a count of procedures, visits, transports, or people. Cells under 11 beneficiaries withheld by CMS. Excludes commercial payers. This series pools an earlier code family Medicare retired in a 2014 recode (External eye drainage device), so the trend does not break where the codes changed — a code migration, not a market jump.
Utilization rate · per 1,000 fee-for-service beneficiaries · 2015–2024
20152016201720182019202020212022202320249.3
Billed Fluid Flow and Drainage of Eye (Any Method) services per 1,000 fee-for-service beneficiaries — an enrollment-independent rate that isolates utilization from the shrinking fee-for-service pool. Assumption-free, so it is NOT scaled to total Medicare.
Share of the published Eye families · billed services · 2024
Cataract SurgeryCataract Surgery: 8.0M8.0MIntravitreal InjectionIntravitreal Injection: 3.6M3.6MFluid Flow and Drainage…Fluid Flow and Drainage of Eye (Any Method): 260K260KVitrectomy - MechanicalVitrectomy - Mechanical: 69K69K
This family is 3rd of 4 published Eye families — about 2% of their combined billed services. A share of billed fee-for-service services, assumption-free (not scaled).

In 2024, Medicare's fee-for-service record carried about 260,000 Fluid Flow and Drainage of Eye (Any Method) billed services in the United States; scaled for Medicare Advantage — roughly half of Medicare enrollment — that is an estimated 516,000 services, or about 9.3 per 1,000 fee-for-service beneficiaries.

This counts reported Medicare Fluid Flow and Drainage of Eye (Any Method) SERVICES — billed services, not procedures, visits, transports, or people. A single episode can bill several services, and one person can be served many times, so this is a volume of billed services and nothing more. On the fee-for-service record the 2024 volume was about 260,000 billed services; scaled to total Medicare enrollment it is an estimated 516,000. Assumption-free, that is about 9.3 Fluid Flow and Drainage of Eye (Any Method) services per 1,000 fee-for-service beneficiaries. Across 2015–2024 the estimated total moved about 1.2 times (about 0.9 times on the fee-for-service record alone, before the Medicare Advantage adjustment).

What this is

Reported Medicare fee-for-service Fluid Flow and Drainage of Eye (Any Method) billed services, 2015 to 2024, scaled to total Medicare enrollment, with the assumption-free per-1,000-beneficiary rate stated alongside.

What it is not

Not a count of procedures, visits, transports, or people (a services-volume count — one episode can bill several services), not Medicare Advantage measured directly, not all-payer, and not a care-quality or need signal. The scaled figures are estimates: the calculation assumes MA per-capita utilization ≈ FFS; MA plans may manage utilization differently. The per-1,000 rate is on the fee-for-service record and is not scaled.