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Published in final edited form as: J Am Acad Dermatol. 2018 Sep 15;88(5):e203–e209. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2018.08.047

Table 2:

List of common dermatologic procedures billed independently by nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) in 2014 compared to 2012.

Type of Procedure by CPT code (^a)	Total No. billed by NPs and PAs		No. increase from 2012 to 2014	% increase from 2012 to 2014
	2012(^b)	2014
Intermediate Repair	18157	32772	14615	80.49%
Complex Repair	8702	14382	5680	65.27%
Destruction of premalignant lesions	2052621	3173897	1121276	54.63%
Destruction of malignant lesions	46675	69608	22933	49.13%
Biopsy	421351	640755	219404	52.07%
Shaving of skin lesions	72336	96187	23851	32.97%
Excision of malignant lesions	20344	28290	7946	39.06%
Excision of benign lesions	29058	43667	14609	50.28%
Injection	19139	37240	18101	94.58%

^a:

data on simple repair, skin grafts, and adjacent tissue transfer were not reported by Coldiron and Ratnarathorn (10) and thus are not compared here

^b:

data obtained from Coldiron and Ratnarathorn (10) which was based on 2012 Medicare Physician/Supplier Procedure Summary Master File.