Trends in Medicare Reimbursement for the Top 20 Surgical Procedures in Craniofacial Trauma.

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to comprehensively evaluate trends in Medicare reimbursement for facial trauma surgical repairs. Adjusting for inflation, Medicare reimbursement for the top 20 most commonly utilized procedures has largely decreased from 2000 to 2021. Consideration of these trends by surgeons, hospital systems, and policymakers will be important to assure continued access to meaningful surgical facial trauma care in the United States.