Cited authority · 2021-2025 · California
American Society of Plastic Surgeons
Independent medical reviewers in California named American Society of Plastic Surgeons in 55 published decisions over 2021-2025. These are the disputes it turned up in.
40.0%
- Overturned
- 22 of 55
- Era
- 2021-2025
- Jurisdiction
- California DMHC IMR
What this number is, and is not. It is the outcome of decisions in which the authority was named — not the effect of naming it. Reviewers cite the standard they applied, so the citation and the outcome share a cause. Read it as “disputes where this standard was the yardstick came out this way”, never as “citing this standard produces this result”.
These count only denials appealed all the way to independent review. Fewer than 1% of denials are appealed internally at all, so a share here is not the share of denials that are wrong — it is the share of contested ones reviewers did not sustain. California only, and only plans the state regulates: not self-funded employer plans, Medicare or Medicaid.
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What stands out here
computed from this standardagainst the market
Decisions naming American Society of Plastic Surgeons came out at 40.0%, 25 points below the 65.2% across all published decisions in this era. Reviewers reach for a standard when it settles the question, so the citation and the outcome share a cause.
where it is used
It appears most in reconstructive & plastic procedures disputes — 54 of the 55 decisions citing it, 98% of its whole footprint, at 38.9%.
Treatment classes
computed- Reconstructive & plastic procedures38.9%54
- General surgery—1
Condition classes
computed- Skin—27
- Endocrine & metabolic—11
- Genitourinary & kidney—8
- Orthopedic & musculoskeletal—6
- Cancer—1
- Trauma & injuries—1