National mean $371,280 · SOC 29-1249
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BLS does not publish a state-level wage for this occupation. It suppresses the state cells — too few establishments per state to report without identifying them — and it also top-codes the national median, printing only that the median is at or above $239,200 a year. What it does publish is a national annual mean of $371,280 across 24,080 workers. BLS publishes no separate plastic-surgery category; they are counted inside Surgeons, All Other, so this figure covers that whole group.
At this income level a single-person household receives no premium tax credit for 2026. The enhanced credits expired on 31 December 2025, restoring the 400% FPL limit, so the subsidy question is settled for this occupation in every state.
What this figure is. It is the national annual mean wage BLS reports for Surgeons, All Other (SOC 29-1249). BLS surveys wage and salary workers and excludes the self-employed, so for an owner of a private practice it is a benchmark for the occupation, not a measure of practice income. Premium tax credit eligibility is set by household modified adjusted gross income and household size, not by occupation.
State-level premium data is published for all 21 states on the rankings page, and county-level carrier and plan detail is on Coverage by County. To check whether a plan actually covers your hospital, see Plans By City.
Put your ZIP code in and I will show you the carriers filing in your county, what the cheapest plan costs, and what you would actually pay after any help you qualify for. No cost, and you talk to me — not a call center.
There is no federal wage median published for plastic surgeons. That is worth noticing: the occupation is either too new or too independent for the government survey to track, which means your subsidy rests on income you project yourself, from your own books, with no external figure to sanity-check it against.
Network participation is decided per plan, not per carrier. One insurer sells a broad-network plan and a narrow one side by side in the same county, and a hospital can be contracted with the first and not the second. That makes “does this carrier cover my hospital” unanswerable. The version with an answer is whether this specific plan, in your county, this plan year includes the facilities and doctors you use. When the income side is an estimate, it is worth being certain about the part you can verify outright — whether the plan covers your hospital.
It takes about ten minutes to settle. Search the plan’s own provider directory for your named physicians rather than the hospital system; check the specific campus, because a system can include one site and exclude another; then call the billing office and read them the exact plan name, since that is how the contract is written. Re-check every plan year — these are renegotiated annually.
Look up a specific hospital system → — what each one means for the plans filed in its market.
Want cheaper coverage? Want better coverage? Not happy with what you have now? Same next step for all three — tell me your ZIP and the doctors you need covered.
Two Plastic Surgeons in different counties can be quoted very different premiums for the same plan. Your ZIP is what decides it.