$816.5M in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure 17003 (Destruction of precancer skin growth, 2-14 growths) received $816.5M in total Medicare payments.
Across 180.2M services, the average Medicare payment was $4.53 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $123.1M | 17.2M | — |
| 2015 | $70.9M | 17.4M | -42.4% |
| 2016 | $72.7M | 18.1M | +2.7% |
| 2017 | $72.9M | 18.4M | +0.2% |
| 2018 | $68.7M | 18.4M | -5.7% |
| 2019 | $76.9M | 19.0M | +11.9% |
| 2020 | $69.3M | 16.2M | -9.9% |
| 2021 | $84.0M | 17.8M | +21.2% |
| 2022 | $87.9M | 18.4M | +4.6% |
| 2023 | $90.1M | 19.3M | +2.5% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Artur Henke | Dermatology | CA | $674.3K | 112.8K | $5.98 |
| 2 | Eric Lewis | Dermatology | CA | $185.5K | 31.5K | $5.88 |
| 3 | Richard Arasi | Dermatology | GA | $121.8K | 23.2K | $5.24 |
| 4 | Christopher Nelson | Dermatology | FL | $120.4K | 24.6K | $4.90 |
| 5 | Roy Bishop | Family Practice | CA | $116.1K | 20.8K | $5.58 |
| 6 | John Walczyk | Dermatology | NY | $116.0K | 18.9K | $6.13 |
| 7 | Michael Bodnar | Dermatology | CA | $108.7K | 18.8K | $5.77 |
| 8 | Michael Heffernan | Dermatology | CA | $96.9K | 16.5K | $5.87 |
| 9 | Mitchell Meyerson | Dermatology | NY | $94.7K | 16.6K | $5.69 |
| 10 | Leslie Storey | Dermatology | CA | $83.9K | 15.2K | $5.54 |
| 11 | Joshua Berlin | Dermatology | FL | $83.0K | 16.4K | $5.05 |
| 12 | David Casper | Dermatology | FL | $82.4K | 16.7K | $4.94 |
| 13 | Harry Saperstein | Dermatology | CA | $79.9K | 14.0K | $5.70 |
| 14 | Anthony Huynh | Dermatology | CA | $79.8K | 15.4K | $5.19 |
| 15 | Eliahou Cohen | Dermatology | FL | $79.3K | 14.8K | $5.35 |
| 16 | Theodor Rudolph | Dermatology | FL | $78.5K | 15.9K | $4.93 |
| 17 | Allison Mccormick | Dermatology | CA | $78.3K | 13.4K | $5.83 |
| 18 | John Long | Dermatology | FL | $77.9K | 15.7K | $4.95 |
| 19 | William Alms | Dermatology | VA | $76.4K | 12.7K | $6.01 |
| 20 | Manish Kumar | Dermatology | IA | $75.4K | 15.5K | $4.87 |
| 21 | Neil Bellet | Dermatology | NY | $72.6K | 12.2K | $5.97 |
| 22 | Cynthia Hensley | Dermatology | FL | $71.0K | 13.5K | $5.25 |
| 23 | Tim Ioannides | Dermatology | FL | $70.2K | 13.3K | $5.26 |
| 24 | John Shen | Dermatology | CA | $66.7K | 12.8K | $5.22 |
| 25 | Kyle Anderson | Dermatology | KS | $62.6K | 14.1K | $4.43 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA | $13.5M | 2.4M | 2.0K | $6.7K |
| FL | $11.8M | 2.5M | 2.0K | $6.0K |
| TX | $5.9M | 1.3M | 1.3K | $4.6K |
| NY | $4.2M | 788.3K | 1.2K | $3.5K |
| AZ | $3.0M | 669.4K | 530 | $5.7K |
| NC | $3.0M | 686.8K | 719 | $4.1K |
| VA | $2.8M | 583.8K | 509 | $5.5K |
| PA | $2.6M | 558.9K | 769 | $3.4K |
| GA | $2.6M | 586.6K | 542 | $4.8K |
| MA | $2.5M | 487.4K | 587 | $4.2K |
| IL | $2.5M | 547.6K | 677 | $3.7K |
| NJ | $2.3M | 427.5K | 561 | $4.1K |
| OH | $2.1M | 498.2K | 638 | $3.3K |
| MD | $2.1M | 400.1K | 381 | $5.5K |
| SC | $1.9M | 453.1K | 267 | $7.3K |
| TN | $1.8M | 433.4K | 435 | $4.1K |
| CO | $1.8M | 357.7K | 406 | $4.4K |
| WA | $1.8M | 382.8K | 436 | $4.0K |
| MI | $1.6M | 361.8K | 518 | $3.1K |
| MO | $1.5M | 346.6K | 327 | $4.5K |
| IN | $1.4M | 334.2K | 353 | $3.9K |
| AL | $1.2M | 290.8K | 291 | $4.1K |
| LA | $1.1M | 247.6K | 241 | $4.4K |
| OR | $1.0M | 233.1K | 277 | $3.8K |
| KY | $970.9K | 233.9K | 244 | $4.0K |
| OK | $940.6K | 229.9K | 189 | $5.0K |
| AR | $924.4K | 232.7K | 180 | $5.1K |
| KS | $870.1K | 212.2K | 210 | $4.1K |
| NV | $862.6K | 189.2K | 158 | $5.5K |
| UT | $838.9K | 198.4K | 228 | $3.7K |
Last Updated: February 2026 (data through 2023, the latest CMS release)
Note: All data is from publicly available Medicare records. OpenMedicare is an independent journalism project not affiliated with CMS.