Plastic Surgery Within the Head and Neck (Plastic Surgery) Physician providers in the U.S.
167 NPPES records list plastic surgery within the head and neck (plastic surgery) physician as their primary taxonomy; Mississippi and California have the most per resident. 119 of them appear in the Medicare Part D prescriber file: a registry record is not proof of an active practice.
What taxonomy code 2082S0099X means
2082S0099X is the National Uniform Claim Committee code for Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgery Within the Head and Neck, in the grouping Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians. 167 NPPES records list it as their primary taxonomy (file of Aug 9, 2026).
A plastic surgeon with additional training in plastic and reconstructive procedures within the head, face, neck and associated structures, including cutaneous head and neck oncology and reconstruction, management of maxillofacial trauma, soft tissue repair and neural surgery. The field is diverse and involves a wide age range of patients, from the newborn to the aged. While both cosmetic and reconstructive surgery is practiced, there are many additional procedures which interface with them.
Source: NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, definition as NUCC publishes it (nucc.org); counts from CMS NPPES.
Most per resident: the 8 highest
Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 2082S0099X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.
Beverly Hills has the most, 10
Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 2082S0099X by practice city, file of Aug 9, 2026.
All 35 states and D.C. with records, by state
| State | Records | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 3 | 0.1 |
| Arizona | 4 | 0.1 |
| Arkansas | 2 | 0.1 |
| California | 25 | 0.1 |
| Colorado | 4 | 0.1 |
| Connecticut | 2 | 0.1 |
| Delaware | 1 | 0.1 |
| Florida | 18 | 0.1 |
| Georgia | 7 | 0.1 |
| Idaho | 2 | 0.1 |
| Illinois | 3 | 0.0 |
| Indiana | 4 | 0.1 |
| Iowa | 1 | 0.0 |
| Kansas | 2 | 0.1 |
| Kentucky | 2 | 0.0 |
| Louisiana | 2 | 0.0 |
| Maryland | 2 | 0.0 |
| Massachusetts | 1 | 0.0 |
In federal data
- NUCC code2082S0099X · Plastic Surgery
- Size rank466th of 688 specialties by records (0% of all)
- In its family3rd of 3 Plastic Surgery codes, 2.7% of the family
- Part D prescribers119 (71.3% of records)
- Part D claims203 a year per prescriber, on average (274th of 496)
- Industry payments103 physicians paid $7.7M in 2024, $75K each on average
- Concentration5 states hold half of all records
Source: CMS NPPES; Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF; CMS Open Payments 2024. Presence in these files is not a quality judgment.
A sample of plastic surgery within the head and neck (plastic surgery) physician records
- Beau Vandiver, MDMountain Brk, AL1861981102
- Scott Asher, M.D.Dothan, AL1316109978
- Ed McCollough, M.D.Gulf Shores, AL1447328141
- David Stacey, M.D.Rogers, AR1740245893
- Eugene Still, MDFort Smith, AR1346570272
- Kyunghoon Chung, MDPhoenix, AZ1821208240
- Robert Marouk, DOPhoenix, AZ1689748311
- Jeffrey Edelstein, M.D.Chandler, AZ1699749150
- Morgan WestbrookScottsdale, AZ1801585716
- Jason Hamilton, MDLos Angeles, CA1780610113
- Jason Diamond, MDLos Angeles, CA1306981519
- Fadi Chahin, MDBeverly Hills, CA1578577920
Registry order, not a ranking. Search by name to find one provider.
Common questions
Why is Plastic Surgery Within the Head and Neck (Plastic Surgery) Physician a thin NUCC code in NPPES?
Only 167 NPIs list Plastic Surgery Within the Head and Neck (Plastic Surgery) Physician as primary taxonomy across 35 states (peak California, 25). That is 466th of 688 NUCC codes by headcount. Thin codes are still searchable by NPI; do not treat the low count as a quality signal.
Do the few Plastic Surgery Within the Head and Neck (Plastic Surgery) Physician NPIs in Open Payments look unusual?
CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 103 paid Plastic Surgery Within the Head and Neck (Plastic Surgery) Physician physicians totaling $7.7M (1,036 payments; average $75K, 4th of 470 by average). Presence is not a quality judgment; thin specialties often have sparse payment rows.
How much Part D prescribing does this specialty do?
Among Plastic Surgery Within the Head and Neck (Plastic Surgery) Physician NPIs, 119 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 203 claims and $8K drug cost per prescriber; 274th of 496 specialties by average claims). Non-prescribing clinicians in the same NUCC code are still in NPPES.
Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy (nucc.org); Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF; CMS Open Payments 2024. Counts are self-designated primary taxonomy, not board certification.
Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Aug 9, 2026.