$889.3M in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure 17004 (Destruction of precancer skin growth, 15 or more growths) received $889.3M in total Medicare payments.
Across 7.9M services, the average Medicare payment was $112.22 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $80.7M | 744.0K | — |
| 2015 | $87.4M | 797.5K | +8.3% |
| 2016 | $90.2M | 833.9K | +3.2% |
| 2017 | $89.1M | 834.9K | -1.2% |
| 2018 | $83.9M | 813.5K | -5.9% |
| 2019 | $90.5M | 821.6K | +7.9% |
| 2020 | $80.7M | 706.5K | -10.8% |
| 2021 | $95.2M | 781.2K | +17.9% |
| 2022 | $95.3M | 790.0K | +0.1% |
| 2023 | $96.3M | 802.1K | +1.0% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tinyee Chang | Dermatology | CA | $463.4K | 3.6K | $129.71 |
| 2 | Zachary Cooper | Dermatology | CA | $336.2K | 2.6K | $129.97 |
| 3 | Kathleen Vine | Dermatology | NY | $323.0K | 2.0K | $159.49 |
| 4 | Curt Samlaska | Dermatology | NV | $311.8K | 2.6K | $119.11 |
| 5 | Gangaram Ragi | Dermatology | NJ | $310.7K | 2.1K | $147.02 |
| 6 | Lionel Handler | Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery | NV | $291.9K | 2.3K | $125.23 |
| 7 | Sam Smith | Dermatology | AZ | $289.4K | 2.3K | $127.00 |
| 8 | Matthew Luxenberg | Dermatology | CA | $282.4K | 1.9K | $150.30 |
| 9 | John Humeniuk | Dermatology | SC | $239.8K | 2.2K | $108.99 |
| 10 | Amarpaul Sidhu | Dermatology | CA | $237.2K | 1.7K | $143.47 |
| 11 | Maryam Sickinger | Dermatology | CA | $234.3K | 1.7K | $137.15 |
| 12 | Kevin Kia | Dermatology | TX | $214.4K | 1.9K | $111.82 |
| 13 | Clay Shearer | Dermatology | KY | $205.8K | 1.9K | $105.82 |
| 14 | David Casper | Dermatology | FL | $192.3K | 1.5K | $124.49 |
| 15 | Lawrence Wells | Dermatology | NY | $191.6K | 1.3K | $151.71 |
| 16 | Robert Weinberg | Dermatology | NY | $188.1K | 1.2K | $159.57 |
| 17 | John Shen | Dermatology | CA | $182.5K | 1.4K | $131.32 |
| 18 | Dina Hunter | Dermatology | SC | $182.5K | 1.6K | $115.58 |
| 19 | Sanjiv Saini | Dermatology | MD | $177.4K | 1.3K | $137.95 |
| 20 | David Kiken | Dermatology | NJ | $175.4K | 1.2K | $150.97 |
| 21 | Robert Strimling | Dermatology | NV | $173.9K | 1.4K | $125.20 |
| 22 | Karl Trimble | Dermatology | UT | $173.2K | 1.5K | $112.74 |
| 23 | Charles Rosenberg | Dermatology | CA | $169.5K | 1.2K | $142.84 |
| 24 | Bijan Setareh-Shenas | Dermatology | NY | $168.5K | 1.1K | $150.43 |
| 25 | Stephanie Caradonna | Dermatology | FL | $161.3K | 1.3K | $128.24 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA | $20.2M | 147.7K | 1.2K | $16.4K |
| FL | $13.5M | 113.8K | 1.2K | $11.2K |
| TX | $6.5M | 56.5K | 715 | $9.1K |
| NY | $6.2M | 43.1K | 450 | $13.7K |
| AZ | $2.9M | 26.3K | 317 | $9.3K |
| NJ | $2.7M | 19.4K | 240 | $11.1K |
| GA | $2.6M | 23.5K | 307 | $8.4K |
| NC | $2.4M | 22.1K | 343 | $7.0K |
| VA | $2.4M | 19.5K | 249 | $9.5K |
| SC | $2.2M | 20.4K | 171 | $12.7K |
| IL | $2.0M | 17.8K | 276 | $7.4K |
| MD | $2.0M | 15.2K | 182 | $11.0K |
| MA | $1.9M | 14.8K | 246 | $7.9K |
| PA | $1.9M | 16.0K | 254 | $7.6K |
| NV | $1.9M | 16.4K | 110 | $17.3K |
| TN | $1.7M | 16.1K | 254 | $6.5K |
| OH | $1.5M | 14.2K | 263 | $5.8K |
| CO | $1.5M | 12.3K | 207 | $7.3K |
| LA | $1.4M | 12.6K | 123 | $11.2K |
| MI | $1.4M | 11.6K | 194 | $7.0K |
| WA | $1.3M | 11.9K | 177 | $7.6K |
| IN | $1.3M | 12.5K | 177 | $7.6K |
| AL | $1.2M | 11.8K | 178 | $6.9K |
| MO | $1.2M | 10.7K | 139 | $8.5K |
| UT | $1.1M | 10.6K | 114 | $9.9K |
| KY | $1.0M | 9.6K | 121 | $8.4K |
| MS | $816.2K | 7.9K | 75 | $10.9K |
| OK | $813.2K | 7.9K | 103 | $7.9K |
| IA | $768.8K | 7.9K | 93 | $8.3K |
| AR | $745.5K | 7.3K | 92 | $8.1K |
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.