Does Health Care Reform Affect Plastic Surgery?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’} One might assume that health care reform has no bearing on plastic surgery. After all, insurance almost never covers cosmetic surgery, and nobody is suggesting eliminating coverage for legitimately reconstructive procedures, right? Maybe so, but that doesn’t mean health care reform means nothing to the future of the practice of plastic surgery. The truth is that the proliferation of managed care has caused an interesting phenomenon — the mass exodus of physicians from their fields of specialty. And I’ll give you three guesses where they’re heading. That’s right — they’re heading for the greener (as in cash-paying) pastures of cosmetic surgery. Never mind thatmany of these physicians are not well-trained or sufficiently experienced in cosmetic surgery. In most U.S.
