tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 28

Carrier Warpath Just Part Of Skin Lesion Fight

You may think it's no skin off your nose if carriers slice away Mohs coverage, but you'd be wrong. Skin cancer is a hot-button issue for Medicare right now. A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (March 2003, pp. 425-9) found that non-melanoma skin cancer is the fifth most costly cancer that Medicare treats. NMSC has a low mortality rate and a much lower per-patient cost than other major cancers, but it's so common that it ends up costing almost as much as lung or colon cancer. The carriers will be on the...

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