Estimated Prevalence of Glaucoma in South Korea Using the National Claims Database

Table 4

The cost and number of glaucoma surgeries (including laser procedures) in Korea between 2009 and 2013 (2008 database was unavailable).

	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Cost of glaucoma surgeries (US$)	2,226,234	2,148,179	2,211,149	2,414,895	2,847,254
Iridectomy (%)	5,362 (54.9%)	5,288 (55.4%)	5,469 (54.4%)	5,809 (53.2%)	6,202 (49.6%)
Trabeculectomy (%)	2,301 (23.4%)	2,152 (22.6%)	2,489 (24.7%)	3,067 (28.1%)	4,013 (32.1%)
Glaucoma implant surgery (%)	831 (8.5%)	946 (9.9%)	928 (9.2%)	991 (9.1%)	1,009 (8.1%)
Iris, ciliary photocoagulation	822	668	779	614	698
Trabeculotomy	236	279	206	205	365
Ciliary body cryotherapy	96	86	93	95	75
Nonpenetrating filtering surgery	63	47	31	38	58
Other filtering surgery	57	73	64	89	80
Total number of surgeries	9,773	9,541	10,061	10,912	12,502

Results based on data from the national claims database.