Trainee-initiated dictations of endocrine surgeries: Implications for education and reimbursement.

Introduction: Our university-based surgery department recently transitioned to attending-only authorship of operative reports. We performed a mixed-methods investigation to determine if trainee-initiated endocrine surgical reports were associated with under-coding of specific procedures.

Methods: Endocrine operations performed from July 2020 to June 2022 were identified from billing data.