Table 1:

Number of service counts billed by nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistant (PAs) for each type of common dermatologic procedures.

Type of Procedure by CPT code	Total billed by all practitioners	Total billed by NPs and PAs	% Billed by NPs and PAs	Independently billed by NPs		Independently billed by PAs
Simple Repair (a)	398691	102603	25.73%	29998	7.52%	72605	18.21%
Intermediate Repair (b)	521603	32772	6.28%	7006	1.34%	25766	4.94%
Complex Repair (c )	510201	14382	2.82%	1806	0.35%	12576	2.46%
Skin Grafts (d)	131229	1761	1.34%	274	0.21%	1487	1.13%
Adjacent Tissue Transfer (e )	469999	7281	1.55%	779	0.17%	6502	1.38%
Destruction of premalignant lesions (f)	26585465	3173897	11.94%	894581	3.36%	2279316	8.57%
Destruction of malignant lesions (g)	884912	69608	7.87%	17270	1.95%	52338	5.91%
Biopsy (h)	4918435	640755	13.03%	178819	3.64%	461936	9.39%
Shaving of skin lesions (i)	932182	96187	10.32%	33071	3.55%	63116	6.77%
Excision of malignant lesions (j)	613053	28290	4.61%	5859	0.96%	22431	3.66%
Excision of benign lesions (k)	657622	43667	6.64%	14906	2.27%	28761	4.37%
Injection (l)	277407	37240	13.42%	9155	3.30%	28085	10.12%
Total	36900799	4248443	11.51%	1193524	3.23%	3054919	8.28%

^a:consists of CPT codes 12001, 12002, 12004, 12005, 12006, 12007

^b:consists of CPT codes 12031, 12032, 12042, 12051, 12052

^c:consists of CPT codes 13101, 13121, 13132

^d:consists of CPT codes 15100, 15120, 15200, 15220, 15260, 15240

^e:consists of CPT codes 14000, 14001, 14020, 14021, 14040, 14041, 14060, 14061, 14301, 14302

^f:consists of CPT codes 17000, 17003, 17004, 17110, 17111, 10040

^g:consists of CPT codes 17261, 17262, 17281, 17260, 17263, 17271, 17272, 17280, 17282

^h:consists of CPT codes 11100, 11101, 69100

^i:consists of CPT codes 11300, 11301, 11302, 11306, 11307, 11310, 11311, 11312, 40490, 67810

^j:consists of CPT codes 11601, 11602, 11603, 11622, 11641, 11642

^k:consists of CPT codes 11200, 11400, 11401, 11402, 11403, 11421, 11422, 11440, 11441

^l:consists of CPT codes 11900, 11901