Declining commercial market share in facial reconstructive surgery: Implications for academic plastic surgery and training future generations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As a surgical discipline without anatomic boundaries, plastic surgery overlaps with several other specialties. This study aims to measure longitudinal trends in the proportion of commercially reimbursed procedures performed by plastic surgeons compared to other specialists. We hypothesize that there is encroachment in commercial market share by anatomically defined subspecialists within otolaryngology, ophthalmology, and dermatology.

Methods

The IBM® MarketScan® Research Databases were queried to extract patients who underwent rhinoplasty, eyelid procedures, and skin cancer reconstruction covered by commercial insurance from 2007 to 2016 in the USA. Surgeon specialty was identified. Poisson regression modeled predictors of provider specialty for each procedure ove

SUBMITTER: Rochlin DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9669143 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature